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…
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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…
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…
For this episode of Bill Holcomb’s life, I visited him at his and Eva’s home, a lovely owner-designed indoor/outdoor dwelling, part domicile, part workshop, part…
Bill Holcomb regularly joins the Valley elite’s morning meeting at Mosswood downtown Boonville for coffee and discussion of local and world affairs. Friday a week…
I first met Willis Tucker in the early spring of 1972. I had moved to Anderson Valley the year before, bought part of the old…
Willis “Willie” Tucker was born on the family farm in Meyer Creek, Arkansas, in 1926. The farm, his daughter Marti Titus believes, was around a…
Stoic as always Susan Murray, after her husband Cleveland died in 1865, continued gracefully and ambitiously down her life’s road. She and the children, with…
The last chapter of the Murray clan migration from Missouri to Rancheria Creek in 1856-7 concluded with the family finding their new homestead site on…