McGill

Slagg Ditch was raised in McGill next to a notorious waterway. He’s also a WPHS graduate. I liked to play golf and then join the boys at the McGill Club for a cool one. A regular we called ‘Rummy’ always showed up at five in the afternoon on Fridays. He looked maybe eighty. He’d take a stool at the corner of the bar where he could face us. He’d pour powdered pina colada mix … [Read more...] about The Extraordinary People of McGill –A Toast to Aloysius Penrose

By Slagg Ditch Slagg Ditch was raised in McGill next to a notorious waterway. He’s also a WPHS graduate. All us McGillites owe a debt of gratitude to Keith Gibson. He has written extensively of life in our town, much of it in his Keith’s Corner column on these pages. He has a prodigious memory and his work is priceless. “Heathens,” his writings call us kids who grew up … [Read more...] about Memories of a Lad from McGill – Tales of Nevada