*Big John Rook, a radio hall of famer who settled in CDA, pays tribute to Johnny Carson and Ray Peterson ("Tell Laura I Love Her," "Fever" and "Corinna, Corianna") here.

*Bill McCrory (Whitecaps), Kristin Hoppe (Not So Fast) and Phil Corless (The Old Goat Trail) provide their views of last night's blogfest here, here and here.

*In Slight Detour, Marianne Love focuses today on Canadian transplant Ed Elliott, who started the Northern Navigation Co., which handled the mail on Lake Pend Oreille and moved houses acrossed it, here.

*The Old Goat Trail tells of the depending departure of Proud Mary from the CDA post office to the one at Cataldo here.

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