An excerpt:
My brother’s body was found circling in an eddy above Florence Creek Rapid. The discovery came after an exhaustive search of the Green River in Utah. Terry had just turned twenty-one and did not leave this world easily. The good die young, they say, but the young die hard. Even in death, Terry was stubborn.
The boat that retrieved his body arrived at the eight-foot-high diversion dam at Tusher Rapid with a six-inch gash cut in her bottom. Another rescue boat wrecked a motor. The following day, the hearse carrying my brother from Green River, Utah, to the crematorium in Ogden had engine failure and had to be towed. There seemed to be a kind of cosmic resistance to his untimely departure…
To read more of Renny’s story, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2014/02/03/rock-me-on-the-water-introduction-by-renny-russell/
And also check out Renny’s artwork from this issue’s Zephyr.
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