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...Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, Suzi Romanik, L. Rufino- Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); Ted Alban, Frances Bander, Robert L. Becker, Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Anna F. Monardo, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Sherry Pierson, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra, Elyse Sloman, Terry Stoller, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani...
...live now isn't that different from how I lived here as a child," says Nora, 36, whose great-great-great-grandfather on her father's side settled in the valley in the early 1800s to work the local gold mine, and whose great-great-grandfather on her mother's side was shot in the back delivering mail for the Pony Express...
...Nora's childhood house was made of adobe, but she and Ron built their two- story, five-room house for $6,000 out of logs and cement. It is a handsome, organically grown house with unpredictable flourishes: the door handle made out of a part from a lawn mower, the recesses in the stone walls for candles, the richly ornate wood carvings throughout. Although the Oests don't have plumbing, a telephone or a well, they do have electricity and a refrigerator they bought for $10 from a neighbor who later shot himself because his condominiums failed...
...given away lots of bicycles and wagons to people less fortunate than us," says Nora. She has joined Ron on the porch and sips a cup of Yerba Buena herb tea. Today even the witches, famous in this valley, must be yielding to the sun, loosening their joints in this welcome reprieve from the chill...
...very mellow pig," says Nora, who makes wild-chokecherry wine and bakes all her breads and biscuits with homegrown wheat and rye. "When she had her first litter, we took a bottle of wine and some glasses into the pig house to help her through...