and "A wide spot on a road that runs upstream, Euchre Creek is a community of connections that bind individuals together and binds them to the natural world from which they derive their sustenance. Euchre Creek is not a character study, nor about any particular character. Rather, it presents the failed incorporation of an outsider into a functioning community, another generation of that community, and its economic expansion. It examines the tensions necessary to suspend the concept of community.It rains most every day in Euchre Creek, as it truly did that winter before innocence bore a generation of mistrust. and "