The following account was written by journalist Fox Perez, a student at Oregon State University working as an intern at our newspaper this summer.
We pulled into the town of St. Paul around 5:30 p.m., the summer evening air still warm as we parked on a patch of dry grass that locals had turned into a makeshift lot.
The gravel crunching under my best pair of boots as I hauled my borrowed camera bag onto my shoulder, nervous and determined to capture something honest about this small town’s biggest event of the year…