Cousin Julie Johnson sent this. It is an an arrangement in her house. My father, Bryce, is in center. Top is Bryce's sister and her grandmother, Margaret; bottom is Margaret's daughter and Julie's mother, Norma Jean, Bryce's mother, Edna May Martin, and (obscured), Margaret.

Bill Woods From Bakersfield

                                 Merle Haggard and Leona (Hobbs) Haggard

 

 Gene Watson By Michael Elliott

"Fourteen Carat Mind"

Written by the legendary Dallas Frazier, and with apologies to Steve Goodman, John Prine, and David Allen Coe, this could be the perfect country-and-western song.  The chorus takes it over the top:  “Layin’ by these railroad tracks in Denver / with a hurtin’ head and a haif a pint o’ wine.”  (Yes, you must pronounce it haif for it to work.) I still wonder what became of poor ol’ Willie Jackson.

 Ridgecrest, Calif., motel, and Midway Shopping Center, 1960s

             Trona, Calif., baseball field at American Potash plant.