First There Were Grapes
Gold was not the initial reason for all the people to settle in the Sierra Nevada Range...(more)

New Beginnings in Camptonville 1933
Mother was apparently hired for the
Camptonville Union School District by word of mouth...(more)

Camptonville School
The Camptonville Grammar School had about 40 students in two rooms...(more)

Pop
The first Christmas in Camptonville we four kids came down with scarlet fever... (more)

Camptonville, Land of Plenty
The back yard of the new property was covered with wild blackberries... (more)

The 4,500 Square Foot Cabin
Pop designed a log house for our family home... (more)

Wood
From the time of the first winter, getting the winter's wood was part of the summer's projects... (more)

Schoolhouse Wood
The winter wood for the schoolhouse was stored under the west porch... (more)

Post Office
C'ville had three mail deliveries a day... (more)

Graduation Time
Friday, the magic day... (more)

Little, Lite and Loyal
"Leland, do you think we could build a glider..." (more)

Arsenal in the Hall
Some of you may remember living during the Great Depression ... (more)

Buck Roger's Anti-Gravity Belt
In C'ville the 'ole swimmin hole' is down in Oregon 'Crick'... (more)

Survey Work
The forest around C'ville is so dense that ...(more)

Grunt
The summer I was 18 I had a job as a grunt... (more)

Flying
By 1936 in C'ville when Leland and I were in the 6th grade... (more)

Halloween
I needed to hurry for it was late afternoon... (more)

Cherries
We school kids, during cherry season... (more)

Camptonville or Moonshine
Jim Delaney and I had been visiting Bob Cassano ... (more)

The Water Automobile
After the demise of our glider... (more)

Coaster Wagon Wheels
During the Depression... (more)