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2 September 2014 at 07:03 - Comments

William Alvin Burke, Rest in Peace.

Bill Fikes Jr Uncle Bill sent my Dad a message when we lived in France and Uncle Bill was stationed in West Germany. He got in a little trouble for it, but I’m sure he thought it was worth it, and it may have been one of the first actual emails. Uncle Bill worked in […]

24 May 2012 at 23:43 - Comments

Guntharich III, Born 293, location unknown

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16 February 2012 at 03:42 - Comments

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16 February 2012 at 03:17 - Comments

One Foggy Morning

by Don Burke on Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 12:27pm One Foggy Morning When my brother Bill and I were boys we knew every trail on every mountain within ten miles of home, home being the beautiful Del Prete “Ranch of the Roses” below the tailing pile of the Sonoma County Quicksilver mine near Guerneville, […]

1 January 2012 at 13:10 - Comments

Curly’s Gold – The Mouse House

Curly’s Gold by Don Burke on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 11:29am It all started with brother George and his barber Curly. I suppose barbers hear a lot of interesting stories and according to Curly, an old timer sitting in his barber chair told him of finding a gold nugget in the stream bed of […]

7 November 2010 at 14:11 - Comments

Into the Earth, an Alaskan Gold Mine adventure

by Billy L. Fikes Jr on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 6:41pm Hatcher Pass was one of the largest gold mining areas in Alaska, and there are still operating mines in the area. The “Hatcher Pass Mine” was closed many decades ago and the shafts sealed off, but there are still other, smaller mines in […]

7 November 2010 at 13:59 - Comments

My UFO Story

by Don Burke on Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 5:38pm When I was a boy growing up, I was probably 12 or so, myself and a friend were walking into town, probably to see a movie. It was almost dark out and we were taking a shortcut across the school ground field. We had been […]

7 November 2010 at 06:30 - Comments

George Fike Last Will & Testament

In the name of God, Amen, I George Fikes of the state of South Carolina and Newberry District, being sick and weak of Body but of “?” mind and memory thanks be to God the same, and Calling to mind the mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appointed to men once to […]

3 November 2010 at 07:26 - Comments

Ray and Ray Jr, Gregson Trucking Dump Truck Permit

3 November 2010 at 06:26 - Comments