The Flannel Revolution

The Flannel RevolutionMy Parents built a small retirement house last year out on the Olympic Peninsula, the most northwesterly place you can go in the contiguous United States without falling into the Pacific Ocean. It's a lovely shank of land, mossy and evergreen, an area where trees tickle the feet of the gods and the very mist seems impregnated with Miracle-Gro. But like other pockets of paradise in the Pacific Northwest, there's a dark humor, bordering on outright lunacy, entangled in the fo...