Book stitches stories of churchgoers together
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POLSON — Miles Finch wrote “Somewhere by Chicago” to have the look and feel of a novel, but every separate story is true.
“‘Somewhere’ is Polson,” Finch said. “The ‘Chicago’ part of the title is explained in the first chapter.”
The book is not a memoir about Finch, however.
“Oh, I am a connecting link,” Finch explained, “but what I did was slice stories from our church and from Polson across the years of my tenure, which started in 1966. In a way it serves as a historical sketch from then until 2003.”
In Finch’s book, you will read of Blossom Cooper, Marge Plank, Tommy Sandford, Frank Lefthand and Pierre Brown Badger, a fictitious name for a real person.
Finch lives in Lakeside after retiring from being pastor at the New Life Christian Center in Polson for 37 years.
Finch got his impetus to write the book from a friend.
“Five years ago Eugene Peterson, author of ‘The Message,” said to me, ‘Miles, if you don’t write up those stories, I will,’” Finch said.
Peterson even offered to listen to the chapters as Finch wrote them, giving the book its first editing.
The book can be purchased from the New Life Book Store and Gift Shop and from Finch at miles004@centurytel.net.
