A couple of weeks ago Wes and I drove another leg of our roadside visits to Highway 128’s historic and iconic buildings. This one was an easy jaunt from the Hamar Olsen ranch, formerly Edmeades…
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Wes and my Navarro road trip recounted in last week's Advertiser continued south, stopping next at the Floodgate shopping mall Rock Stop store. The house across the street on the east side of the highway’s origins have…
The end of La Nina drought has been like no wet winter I remember in my half century living in The Valley. From the day after Christmas until Wednesday ten days ago over three weeks…
Ward Ranch homestead, milepost 43.67 Last week’s travelogue ended up at Wes Smoot’s childhood family home on the Morrow Ranch, Highway 128 milepost 44.75. From there Wes and I motored another mile down the road…
Wes Smoot, locally born and raised, at age 90 is one of the most informed Valley historians and journalistic story-tellers I know of. His article in the Advertiser last month recounting the business history of…
Last week’s Billy Owens story began with our first meeting on Friday nights at the Floodgate Store bar down near Navarro. Time for the rest of that story. My wife Anna’s providing the instrument for…
I met Bill right after my wife and I first moved to The Valley fifty years ago. Our meeting place was the Floodgate Store bar along Highway 128 toward the Deep End of Navarro. Moving…