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Recollections of Fort Despair

The original AVA compound, aka Fort Despair, was the Boonville headquarters of the America’s Last Newspaper, but also ground zero for an ongoing social experiment…

Pear Sheds

One night in 1954, I was coming out of my driveway and could see a red glow in the sky to the south. As I…

Eradication & Cultivation

The title probably caught your eye thinking this would be a great story about Cannabis!! Haha. This is actually a perspective on the eradication of…

The Fashauer Family In The Valley

I met Anne Fashauer at Mosswood on a wet Saturday last month for morning coffee and ancestors story-telling.  We consumed about two hours of her…

Stop to Shop at the Rock Stop

You’ve all driven past it, that intriguing shop at the old Floodgate building in Philo on the 128, a couple miles east of the Navarro…

County Agenda Notes

A Measure B Repayment Plan? Item 4b on next Tuesday’s Board agenda is “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff Regarding the Proposed Loan…

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