The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

My grandmother, like many in her generation, occasionally waxes nostalgic about the "old home".

Until rather recently, this place was a rather vague and mysterious location known as "up home" or "the farm". It was near something called Castle Rock, she told me, and occasionally she and her siblings would ride their horses to it. The Farm was located near St. John and Pine City. In any case, she assured me, it was one of the most beautiful places on earth.

I didn't actually visit the Farm until a few years ago. I visited again last weekend. In both of these cases, it was to attend a family r...