Every August of my childhood, I waited for the evening rainstorms. Dark clouds blossomed suddenly over the western mountains, sweeping across the Salt Lake Valley to the cul-de-sac I called home. Each ...

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HAYDEN, Idaho — StanCraft started building wooden boats almost 90 years ago. And while the tools are more advanced now, the construction process hasn’t changed much at all. “I have had builders that ...