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…
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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…
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…
When Hollifield came here and built his mill, everyone wanted to work for him… — Ken Hurst recollection, August, 2022 When I first moved to…