Although the town of Eureka, and Eureka County as a whole was heavily involved in the mining industry in its early days, the people there were not intellectual infants and […]
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Is This You? | Ever Been Googled?
We all get them. The phone calls. The robot calls. The mind numbing calls that bring you to the edge of the cliff. The ones that come during dinner or […]
Great Basin Crescents
On a Father’s Day outing to Fort Churchill several years ago, I happened to discover one of the most interesting Indian artifacts I ever found in my many years of […]
Is This You? | Just Pick One!
Sometimes I think if I have to make one more choice I’m going to melt into a puddle of goo. Do I really have to know the best detergent to […]
More About Potosi, Virginia City’s Older Sister
Since I wrote a previous article about the similarities and differences between the old silver town of Potosi in Bolivia and our own Virginia City here in Nevada, I have […]
Is This You? | Life Changes Us All
We sit in the back row at church. No real reason for this. It just happens that way. So the back of my head of hair has not been an […]
Is this You? | Watch Yourself
You know when you fall down or trip on your own feet you can feel the eyes of those around you are upon you? How do you know that? Is […]
Is This You? | Flying Spiders
We find ourselves flowing into another season. It’s fall, autumn, post summer, pre-winter. So many things happen this time of year. Not that there are more or fewer things happening […]
Nevada History: The ‘Slim Princess’ Railroad
By 1880, the owners of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad decided to pursue another venture to tap into the new mining districts developing in the south-central part of Nevada. The […]
Is this You? | Listing Everything
Have you seen the ads on TV for a new refrigerator that you can use to make your grocery list? Then at the store you just call up your fridge […]

