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Posts published by “Brad Wiley”

The Hop Flat Adventure, Some New Info

Since I submitted my Hop Flat explorations story last week, I have stumbled across some additions and corrections I would like to share with your readers. The most interesting of them was a coincidental consequence…

A Nuts And Bolts Adventure: Exploring Hop Flat

I began hearing about Hop Flat, the short-lived logging and millcamp west of the rocky bluff at Highway 128’s milepost 5.50, when I first moved to The Valley in 1971. The old Navarro woodsman bachelor…

Chapter Two: Rainbow Finds A Home In The Valley

To begin, let me report that after submitting the previous Rainbow story to the Advertiser, it occurred to me that I had not asked the interviewee the origins of his pseudonymous moniker. One windless spring…

Cap’n Rainbow, Roots & Ancestry

Very early in these Anderson Valley stories and reminiscences, I wrote a couple of articles on the subject “what is a hippie anyway?,” which described a broad spectrum of personalities and careers in our community.…

The Fashauers On Greenwood Ridge (Part 2)

Anne Fashauer’s first recollections of her life on Greenwood Ranch were of the original Louis Fashauer Ranch. Around 1970 she was, age three, living with her parents, Francis and Alice, at the original homestead on…

The Fashauer Family In The Valley

I met Anne Fashauer at Mosswood on a wet Saturday last month for morning coffee and ancestors story-telling.  We consumed about two hours of her recollections, along with a political discussion about real estate commission…

The Kendall Family Saga, Part 3

Sheriff Matt Kendall’s father Burl was born in the Fort Bragg Lumber Company hospital in Fort Bragg in March, 1935, and spent his early childhood with his parents Alonzo Francis and Fern Kendall, the managers…

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