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Edge of Town
Diana Marcum writes stories about gamblers, nuns, squirrels, pharmacists and sheep shearers. Small towns. City corners. Ways of Valley life that are disappearing, and ways of living that will always be. She's partial to quirky. If you know an edge of town that ought to be a story, contact her at dmarcum@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6375.
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Letting the plants grow
John Warner hasn't forced his flowers, or his children, into straight rows. But they flourish. At this hand-powered Madera County flower farm, bouquet colors don't match, potatoes show up among the zigzagging zinnias and the well just ran dry -- but that's a source of entertainment as well as alarm."Everybody quiet," says John C. (or "young John") Warner, 45, before his brother Ray drops a pebble down the empty well. It falls 280 feet, sending back eerie "dwoooops" suitable for a sci-fi sound effect.10:59:24 PM Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 |
They pet horses, don't they?The driveway to Jensen's Armstrong Stables is a passageway into the country from the center of the city.
Sound of drumsDUNLAP -- These Sierra foothills are home to a lot of things: cults, a cheetah refuge, church camps. Down the road, there's a Greek priest buried on a hill behind the domes and arches of a Byzantine-style monastery. A man eating lunch at the local diner was born in the house his grandfather built.
10:56:47 PM Sunday, Jul 20, 2008
Sound of drumsDUNLAP -- These Sierra foothills are home to a lot of things: cults, a cheetah refuge, church camps. Down the road, there's a Greek priest buried on a hill behind the domes and arches of a Byzantine-style monastery. A man eating lunch at the local diner was born in the house his grandfather built.
04:21:42 PM Thursday, Jul 24, 2008
City turns up heat on shaved iceThe day after a story about Huntington Boulevard ran, the city of Fresno hustled out there to close down a shaved ice stand catering to neighborhood kids.
Leapin' lizards!In a small, shingled 100-year-old farmhouse near Fowler, there lives a two-headed, bearded dragon lizard.
Where life slows downAt dawn, an anonymous lip-pursing virtuoso on a bicycle whistles a wake-up call to the neighborhood. Everyone knows him simply as "The Whistler."
Local flavorOn an inner-city Fresno street, near a freeway overpass and a fenced canal, is an ice cream store.
Cosmic CafeHarry Horasanian, 73, never felt the need to travel.
A Lasting LoveMac and Martha MacGillivray walk together.
Step right upBobby Reynolds, self-proclaimed greatest showman on Earth, has moved to Fresno.
Keeping trouble on ice
Welcome to Cookseyville
Small-town heroes
Game of life
Tyke's trike peddled
» See more Edge of Town stories
10:59:07 PM Sunday, Jul 13, 2008
Leapin' lizards!In a small, shingled 100-year-old farmhouse near Fowler, there lives a two-headed, bearded dragon lizard.
10:28:07 PM Sunday, Jun 29, 2008
Where life slows downAt dawn, an anonymous lip-pursing virtuoso on a bicycle whistles a wake-up call to the neighborhood. Everyone knows him simply as "The Whistler."
11:08:04 PM Saturday, Jun 28, 2008
Local flavorOn an inner-city Fresno street, near a freeway overpass and a fenced canal, is an ice cream store.
12:24:06 PM Thursday, Jun 12, 2008
Cosmic CafeHarry Horasanian, 73, never felt the need to travel.
02:06:23 PM Friday, Jun 6, 2008
A Lasting LoveMac and Martha MacGillivray walk together.
02:04:43 PM Friday, Jun 6, 2008
Step right upBobby Reynolds, self-proclaimed greatest showman on Earth, has moved to Fresno.
02:02:28 PM Friday, Jun 6, 2008
Keeping trouble on ice
Welcome to Cookseyville
Small-town heroes
Game of life
Tyke's trike peddled
» See more Edge of Town stories
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