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Is This You: Hot Dog a New Shop

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Shopping, especially for clothes is not something I “relish.” I do “muster” through it, just to “catch-up” when I need to! Enough hot dog talk. Shopping is an acquired taste […]

History of Presidents Day

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Presidents Day as we know it did not start until 1971. That year the February birthdays of President Lincoln and George Washington were combined as part of the Saturday-to-Monday holiday […]

Operation Haylift, 1948-1949

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I recently received an email from 91 year old Harold Harvell concerning an earlier article I wrote about the Operation Haylift of 1948 – 1949. Mr. Harvell was personally involved […]

Is This You: Greener Trips

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For the longest time I thought that where I lived was the only place where people had to travel to do stuff that people who lived in cities could do […]

Eureka’s First Jail

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Weather historians in Nevada note the winter of 1869 was particularly hard. Bitter cold and snows held all of central Nevada in its grip. Since 1865, the bustling mining camp […]