Turner, author of local books, passes away

Steve Turner, author of two books about Adams County, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Mar. 18, at his home in Santa Cruz, Calif. Turner published his first book about rural life in Washington titled “Amber Waves and Undertow: Peril, Hope, Sweat and Downright Nonchalance in Dry Wheat Country” in 2010. He then joined with his friend, photographer Lionel Delevingne, to publish “Drylands, a Rural American Saga” last year.

During his junior year of college, Turner worked on a farm in Lind hauling grain. It was during that summer that he fell in love with the history, people and land in Adams County. Turner continued to make regular trips to Ritzville after living in the area for that summer.