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PRIEST RIVER – Rae Ellen (Moore) Lee, a 1963 graduate of Priest River High School, award-winning author of fiction, memoir and humor, has recently published a book of stories about growing up in the 1950s on a stump ranch north of Priest River, The Stump Ranch Chronicles.
Since 1963, the author has worked as a secretary for the U.S.
State Department in Washington, D.C. and Bern, Switzerland.
She later received a degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Idaho and worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho and Montana. After that Rae Ellen lived on a sailboat, co-owned a small business on St. John, USVI, and now lives near Bellingham.
“You could stand on top of a stump and see for miles,” Lee says of growing up on the stump ranch. “It was that open to the sun and sky and world.”
The Stump Ranch Chronicles is a charming collection of vignettes about a girlhood set against the backdrop of charred tree stumps, the songs of wrens and frogs, blasts of dynamite, chimney fires, barefoot summers, an unrequited love affair with horses, and the finding of enchantment in all things outdoors.
This book and the author’s five others are available from Amazon. The author may be contacted at her email address msraeellenlee@ gmail.com.
