Co-authored by high school classmates Darrel White and Bob Dick, Skunk Cabbage and Chittum Bark is a compilation of stories and anecdotes that bring Washington state's Olympic Peninsula of the 1950's and 60's to life. The setting for most of the vignettes in the book includes the fields, forests and stream banks of the Wynooche River, a tributary that flows from the heart of the Olympic Mountains into the larger Chehalis River that wends its way through Grays Harbor County. The unique lifestyle the two men lived is unlikely to be repeated in modern America. As the authors share their childhood experiences, readers invariably reflect upon their own childhood escapades. Written with zest and humor, the author's memoirs include a portrait of resilience and hard work, as well as numerous brushes with fate, and provide a glimpse into life in the rural backwoods of their youth and both authors have come to the realization that they were and shall always remain, proud Sons of the Wynooche.