All Hell For A Basement
Medicine Hat (or The Hat) has a beautiful downtown, filled with unique restaurants, shops and parks. In addition to pottery and glass, bricks were produced locally, which makes for some amazing turn of the century architecture. Rudyard Kipling visited in 1907. Upon learning about the huge natural gas deposits in the area, uttered his famous quote "This part of the country seems to have all Hell for a basement, and the only trap door appears to be in Medicine Hat." The city's original planners filled the Hat with parks and greenspaces. In more recent eras, the entire city has been connected through and elaborate trail system. There are people who are part of your life that time does not affect. My oldest friend is one of those people. Marcella and I met when I was 12. Our lives were so intertwined as teenagers, that she was with me on most of our first adventures. We were in 4-H, youth group and high school together. Our parents became friends and we married b...