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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]