March 2022

As Mount Saint Helens rumbled during the spring months of 1980, one man stood firm in is resolve to remain on the mountain. Harry R. Truman, an innkeeper, refused to leave his home despite an evacuation order and repeated warnings that came via reoccurring earthquakes. He acknowledged it was ‘possible’ the mountain might ‘blow’ someday, but he never reached the place where he was wiling ‘to pack up his bags' and leave his home.