The document summarizes the author's visits to Cobalt, Ontario after being contacted by a grade 4 class in 1997 about a zoo animal invitation contest. In 2002, the now grade 7 class invited the author again for a last visit. The author arranged the visit and was given a tour of the town and local mines. The author told stories to the students and locals. One story written for a boy on the visit would later become a book published in 2005.