Born on his mother's family homestead in North Dakota, during the Great Depression, three straight crop failures brought Hamiltons by the score, west to Eatonville, Washington where Arthur (Pat) has called home for over seventy years. After "short careers" in building homes, logging, lumber mills, Air Force, real estate, insurance, laminated wood beans, and wholesale drugs, it was time to retire and find other activities. Art wrote poetry, then short stories, and finally decided to try writing a novel. Walla! "Jonathan's Journey"
