I don’t recollect when or how Sammy “Prather Ranch” Prather and I first met. But I do know it wasn’t long after I arrived in…
Posts published by “Brad Wiley”
My earlier report on the childhood of Donald Dukes, Bob Glover’s step-son, described his migration from a Kentucky coal camp to industrial Hammond, Indiana, to…
Two weeks ago our story introduced us to the life of Aunt Blanche Brown, teacher, historian, community asset. The episode ended with the fire that…
Dr. John Brown, Aunt Blanche’s grandfather, settled in Philo in 1862, during the Civil War. His family had migrated to California, along with Iowa neighbors,…
Many Advertiser readers know the Health Center Capital Campaign “Heartbeat of The Valley” raising monies to expand the facility’s offices has moved from the “silent”…
Donald Dukes, current Board member of the Anderson Valley Historical Society, is also one of the first “City People” to migrate to The Valley right…
It was an enjoyable excursion down memory lane sitting with Mark Apfel in his Greenwood Ridge home backyard garden on a serious spring afternoon last…
Many readers know the Anderson Valley Health Center has recently launched a Capital Campaign to fund construction of the much needed addition to its offices…
From the day I began laying out my vineyard on paper back in 1971 I wondered whether what I was doing was in the best…