James Abbott's mural portrait of a very young Nick Rillakis (1893-1970), McCleary, Washington. By the time I met Nick in 1964 he was a...

Four portraits by James Abbott at the entrance of the old Rhodes Grocery, long ago converted to a cram-yer-crap storage business. So far a...

This was Rhodes Grocery in McCleary, Washington when I was a kid. A big, bald Greek fellow named Nick ran the place and would talk your ear ...