Up Colburn way

Marianne Love/Slight Detour tells of taking her camera to the Colburn area yesterday:

I went to the Colburn area with my camera yesterday.  It’s north and west of the Selle Valley, along HWY 95.  Used to be that the highway ran through downtown Colburn, home to a country store.

Our friends, the Kamps, owned that store for a while, and we used to visit the family there. Eventually, the store gave way to a highway right-of-way.  Nowadays, Colburn is more of a residential area since the Norway Café and Motel and the Jinx Tavern also became history.

Some longtime residents, however, still proudly claim Colburn as their addresses, while others who have moved away still happily share wonderful stories about their childhood there, including school days at the elementary school, which still sits on a hillside east of the highway. More here.