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For over 18 years, I worked in various capacities for the Nevada State Highway Department, later to become NDOT. I knew many of the subcontractors on the Interstate projects and […]
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Is This You? Popping Pine Cones
A very unofficial poll tells me that four out of six people will vote fall aka autumn as their favorite time of the year. Reasons vary widely on why people […]
Thanksgiving Reflections
Thanksgiving is the most American of all holidays. Now highly commercialized, the real meaning of the holiday has been essentially pushed aside so stores can get on with the Black […]
Nevada’s Central Pacific Railroad
The completion of the Nevada portion of the Central Pacific Railroad was celebrated with with the driving of the golden spike near Promontory Point, Utah in May, 1969. This followed […]
Is This You? Memory Lane
Well, look here. The calendar on all our walls reports it’s getting to be that time of the year. When families gather. Food and love are plentiful and the stories […]
Sutro Tunnel Compared to Carlin Tunnels
In my long career at NDOT, I was involved with one of the largest tunnel projects ever attempted in Nevada. This was when I was a field engineer in the […]
Is This You? Undercurrents of Information
It doesn’t matter where I saw this, but there was a blurb regarding companies that collect information about us all. The deal was that a woman asked for her report […]
History: Whiskey Played a Big Part
The mountain mining town of Pioche, Nevada, was one of the toughest places in all of the old west. In the early 1870s, the six-gun was the only law, and […]
Is This You? Gravy
Have you heard that saying about not sweating the small stuff, and it is all small stuff? Well, this is kind of along those lines, but more Trina-ish. Life’s all […]
Nevada’s Contribution to the Civil War
No sooner had the Pyramid Lake Indian Wars ended and fear of attack subsided in the Nevada Territory and on the Comstock in 1860, The American Civil War began. Fortunately, […]