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Posts published by “Brad Wiley”

Sam Prather, 1942-2022

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…

Donald Dukes: The First “City Kid,” Part 2

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…

Aunt Blanche Brown & Indian Creek (Part 2)

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…

AV Health Center Capital Campaign Goes Public

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”…

Don Dukes, AV’s First ‘City Person’?

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…

AV Health Center: Founders & Early Days

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…

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