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 ago I met Bill there around 9 AM, too chilly…
Posts published by “Brad Wiley”
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 Ingram Ranch in Navarro with the intent to plant wine…
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 hundred acres of gently rolling bottomland along the creek where…
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 support from the neighbors, continued to run the family farm…
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 the flat west of where Beebe Creek and Rancheria Creek…
To continue my “Arkies” in The Valley stories, I thought I would explore the life of an “older” immigrants’ child. As Einstein theorized over a hundred years ago with regard to age and time, everything…
When Hollifield came here and built his mill, everyone wanted to work for him… — Ken Hurst recollection, August, 2022 When I first moved to The Valley half a century ago, locals were still telling…
Very old friend Kenny Hurst is a great story-teller and journalist too. I found that out right away almost fifty years ago when he wrote a flamboyant report for the “other” Anderson Valley newspaper I…