The Rules | Previous Winners | Hall of Fame | Help us judge | Spread the word | Problems?

Post of the Week #6
Previous Winners : Feed
February 26th, 2007

Paul: Kinda Rough

It was an agricultural community to start with. My first generation dad would point out with disgust how whatever new shopping center or paved roadway used to be Gundersons’ farm or Bardo’s dairy pasture and what a shame they sold out during the depression. Or Nokamura’s radishes, or Watanabes’ celery field, and how they’d lost their land during WWII. Of course , they had to go. They might have been spies and helped the enemy. You couldn’t take chances back then.

Read more….

Our Judges said:

“I liked the simplicity of this post and how it addresses the complexities of the situation within. Paul’s short, yet heartfelt journey of boxed-up memories and emotions reminds us of the conflicts we each find in our family histories, and perhaps hanging on our walls.”

“This writer takes a family secret and deftly moves the personal to the universal.Internment camps are North America’s shame. We don’t like to talk about them. ever. There are no superfluous words here, which makes the return of a family history all the more potent.”

View the shortlist

11 Comments to “Post of the Week #6”

  1. FirstNations ~ February 26th at 7:16 pm #

    This is a suprise!
    Thank you to the judges, and thank you to whoever nominated me!


  2. Mike ~ February 26th at 8:30 pm #

    Paul: the post was originally nominated by Betty.


  3. Clare ~ March 2nd at 10:50 pm #

    Um… I think something’s wrong with the site?

    All the nominations for this week seem to have disappeared? All I can see is the shortlist.


  4. Mike ~ March 2nd at 11:58 pm #

    That’s the way it’s designed to work, Clare. The nominations close on Friday night, and are replaced by the shortlist until Sunday night, at which point nominations re-open.


  5. kate ~ March 3rd at 8:01 am #

    How many Nominations were there for POTW which closed last night?

    kate

    I may have PC problems….


  6. Clare ~ March 4th at 8:41 pm #

    Oh!

    But why can’t I see the archives?

    I never manage to look at the nominations during the week - I only get to catch up at the weekend, at which point it’s nice to be able to look at all nominations for the week. After all, just because the judges are only considering the shortlist, seems a shame to prevent anyone else from seeing the other nominations? Particularly as it means if something is nominated on Friday afternoon and then doesn’t make the shortlist, chances are nobody’ll ever see it?


  7. Clare ~ March 4th at 8:42 pm #

    Scrap that, I’ve thought about it and I can see that you have to remove the nominations thread, or people would still be trying to nominate (although I spose you could always just disable comments on that thread, but that might be an extra piece of work for someone, and I can see how you’d want to keep tasks to a minimum).


  8. Mike ~ March 4th at 11:12 pm #

    When the nominations box re-appears tomorrow, there will be an “Archives” link at the top. Click it to see all the nominations from previous weeks.

    The nominations box is only replaced by the shortlist for 1.5 to 2 days a week. It keeps the site simple, and draws attention to the shortlist.


  9. kate ~ March 5th at 8:31 am #

    No result yet ???


  10. Clare ~ March 5th at 8:36 am #

    By the way, I’ve already commented on the post itself, but I thought I ought to say what a great post “Kinda Rough” is, having hogged this comment box with loads of boring nuts-and-bolts stuff.


  11. oxbzonenow ~ June 19th at 3:08 pm #

    Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! xmjdtuholetjt


Comment

Note: Comments may not always appear immediately, sometimes they are held for moderation. If your comment does not appear within 24hrs (hopefully less!) then please get in touch.