It may have warmed up a bit over the past couple of weeks, but areas around Newcastle still have above-average snow totals, according to an April 1 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
About the time the Weston County History Book was compiled, I asked Babe (Ethel) to write down some of her early family history. At that time, she was living in Walla Walla, Wash. It was early 1990s. The following stories are what she wrote from her memories.
