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Mrs. Tune, The Sheriff and the Goats
Vesta Tune lived in Springfield Colorado in the 1940′s and 50′s, Prior to that she lived in the Lycan Colorado area (north of the present day town of Walsh Colorado) near the Brooks side of my family. During a lecture on “Women of the Dust Bowl” presented by Dr. Sara Jane Richter of Panhandle State […]
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A Tale of Sheet Music
Posted with Permission of Kathryn Neufeld (Kent Brooks’ mother-in-law) The last page was turned and I was sad to see there was no more music to play. For several days I had been playing through a stack of sheet music. Music that was written before my time. Some were dated as far back as 1926 […]
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My Link To The Old West…
My Link to the Old West originally appeared on Boody’s Blog: Missives from Mythtickle and is re posted with permission from Justin Thompson Last summer, 2008, I found something out from my Dad that was absolutely astounding. Now this ain’t a myth, this is true. I’m shootin’ ya’ straight here. My family and I, wife and […]
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More Tales From the Prairie: A Sanora Babb Conversation
Reposted from KentBrooks.com November 28, 2013 In early September 2013, I was in my hometown of Springfield Colorado. While eating at the Longhorn Steakhouse I got into a discussion with an old Baca County compadre, Kevin Greenlee, about author Sanora Babb. Babb wrote “An Owl on Every Post” which chronicles her early years living in a dugout on the Southeast […]
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