Write Stuff Interview with Myra Buteau 8 PM, Thursdays, Jan. 15 and 22

On Write Stuff we’ll be talking about a once-important, boomtown that now lies, roughly intact, under roughly 400 feet of water, not far from Shasta Dam.  In her book, The Town Under Shasta Lake, local author Myra Buteau uses a rich selection of archival photos that take us back in time to the town of Backbone, later re-named Kennet. It’s a story full of colorful characters in a town whose prosperity and fate were closely bound to a single product of fluctuating value: Copper