Rusty Strait

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Takin’ it to the streets

Growing up "dirt poor" in the mountain communities of West Virginia during the Great Depression, “homeless” usually meant that one had no family. I was a product of “Appalachia” 30 years before John F. Kennedy discovered it.

CHAPTER XXII

I’ve been told that I have a memory like a steel trap. It is true that I can remember details from age three, even as to what someone was wearing and the topic of conversations. I don’t know why, but it has always been that way with me.

Conrad Frick retires from Hemet Post Office after almost 38 years

For more than 37 years Conrad Frick has been a familiar face at both the Main Post Office on Acacia Avenue by State Street and the Yale Station by True Value Hardware Store.

D.V.A.C. PRESENTS BEST SHOW OF THE SEASON

If you like swing, Broadway, jazz or opera but didn't attend "Bubbles and The Boys" this past Saturday night at the Diamond Valley Arts Council in Hemet, then you cheated yourself out of the best show I've seen in the valley in years

Growing up Hillbilly – Chapter XXI

While I worked at the Pennsylvania Hotel, I still had the urge to sing with a band in a night club. One night of from work I took the IRT Subway down to Greenwich Village and strolled down Third Street where clubs and bars lined both sides of the street.

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