Here are a few scenes from the 17th annual South Perry Street Fair held on Saturday, July 16, 2016. While a few rainstorms passed by, plenty of people ventured about to listen to music and check out vendors selling everything from clothing to art to food.
![EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW, 1995
Walter's nonfiction book about the Ruby Ridge standoff between Randy Weaver's family and the federal government.
I really challenged myself to write with the neutrality of a reporter. I was at the [Spokesman-Review] when Ruby Ridge happened. Covered it. Researched how the Weavers arrived at that, researched how the government messed it up, covered the trial and then tried to sell a book for about a year and a half, then took a sabbatical to work on the book, then finally sold it. That would have been the spring of '95 and it came out in the summer of '95. So I sold it, wrote it, and it came out in just this incredibly fast amount of time. I'm weirdly proud of it, although it feels like a different person. A really young, idealistic journalist. I didn't sleep. I used to have a trampoline in the backyard, and I would go to Java Junkies, which was one of the first espresso places, and get what they called a Buzz Bomb. At midnight, to keep working, I would get a Buzz Bomb and do flips just to keep myself working because I knew my deadline was soon. And I didn't know then that you could miss a book deadline. For my book tour, I started on Nightline, Good Morning America. Flew to New York, and I'd never been east of Wyoming. It was so surreal.](https://media1.fdncms.com/inlander/imager/u/r-bigsquare/20449423/every_knee_shall_bow.jpg?cb=1603319231)
