One of the worst things about getting old are all the wonderful memories and all the wonderful people that will not ever be seen again.

As most of you know, I have written again and again about my life as a boy and young man on Clear Creek. But apart from Clear Creek itself and the incredible beauty of that part of the Bear Paw Mountains, it was the people who summered there and others who lived there winter and summer that were so intriguing for me.

I have not written much about Dan, Jim and Veronica Murphy but at one time they were large in my life and the lives of my family.

That family liv...