The Bogwen Report
By Wally  Parker
 
 The Leno Prestini Files
Prestini File #1: the Caterina & Luigi Prestini letters - translations needed.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2011/11/leno-prestini-files-1-letters-looking.html

Prestini File #2: the Caterina & Luigi Prestini letters - translations needed.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2011/11/leno-prestini-files-2-letters-looking.html

Prestini File #3: the Caterina & Luigi Prestini letters - translation needed.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2011/11/leno-prestini-files-3-letters-looking.html

Prestini File #4: A few of Leno Prestini’s school records.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2011/11/leno-prestini-files-4-several-lost.html

Prestini File #5: Battista Prestini’s Italian letters – translation needed.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2011/12/leno-prestini-files-5-letter-for.html

 Leno Prestini’s Sketch “Hell at Dawn.” The story beneath Leno Prestini’s drawing of the old Clayton grange being moved.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2011/05/leno-prestinis-sketch-hell-at-dawn.html

Pursuing the Art and Life of Leno Prestini. Thoughts regarding researching and recounting the details of Leno’s art and life.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2011/06/pursuing-life-and-art-of-leno-prestini.html


 Tuffy’s War
The early history of Tuffy and Orland Luhr - and their younger brother Alan Berg - at Clayton.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/tuffys-war-part-one-of-six.html

The Luhr boys learn to fly at Deer Park’s first airport.
ttp://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/tuffys-war-part-two-of-six.html

Second Lieutenant Orland Luhr’s fatal crash at Luke Field, Arizona.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/tuffys-war-part-three-of-six.html

Private Alvin “Tuffy” Luhr enters combat in the European theater.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/tuffys-war-part-four-of-six.html

Tuffy witnesses the fall of Nazi Germany.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/tuffys-war-part-five-of-six.html

Life after the war.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/tuffys-war-part-six-of-six.html

Historical Fragments
Henry Brook:
 Searching for data on Clayton co-founder Henry Brook.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/historical-fragments-1-washington-brick.html
Henry Brook 2:
More details regarding Clayton co-founder Henry Brook – including a circa 1890 photograph and some details of his arrival in Spokane Falls in 1883.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2012/03/historical-fragments-2-more-mr-brook.html

Stepping to the Side: A Dynamite Primer
Leaning the art of stump blasting in the late 1950s.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2011/09/stepping-to-side-dynamite-primer.html

Incident at Knight’s Diner
Clayton residents Homer and Glenna Ireland and Williams Valley farmers Owen and LillieParker have an evening out in the big city.
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2011/11/incident-at-knights-diner.html

 Staff Sergeant Robert Willis Grove:
Between October 5, 1942, and July 29, 1943, Staff Sergeant Robert Willis Grove of Deer Park, as waist gunner and bombardier, flew twenty-six B-17 missions over occupied Europe.  This is the first of a
series of research papers intended to lay the foundation for a story regarding
such.  Photos included.
 http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2012/03/historical-fragments-3-notes-for-26.html

Staff Sergeant Robert Willis Grove  2:
  A study of the collaborating evidence regarding Gordon Grove’s claim that his father was one of the Army Air Forces’ extremely rare “Enlisted Bombardiers.”
http://thebogwenreport.blogspot.com/2012/04/historical-fragments-4-notes-for-26.html