A Writer's Chemistry Lab: Returning to my hometown with Fobbit

I grew up in Jackson, Wyoming.  Back then, it was a mid-sized town anchoring the bottom of the Jackson Hole valley--the Rocky Mountain Eden lined with the gray-blue teeth of the Tetons.  When I moved to Jackson in 1972, a good portion of its streets were still unpaved and drugstore cowboys still outnumbered the ski bums (though both of those elements were quickly changing).

My HometownMy father was the pastor at the First Baptist Church, a congregation that doubled, tripled, maybe ev...