By Kirby Vickery from the December 2012 Edition Dear Dan, In the past I have written to you about the people and a little about some of the road conditions here in Manzanillo, Mexico. This letter will broach a subject of a different topic but needs an introduction so you’ll understand the tie in with […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the November 2012 Edition In 1949 people couldn’t get frozen Thanksgiving Day turkey’s at the market. Those olden refrigerators were too small to hold such a large bird and even if they could the freezer compartments in them were too small. My mother would tell of the hours picking out the […]
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By Freda Rumford & Kirby Vickery from the November 2012 Edition People and Scandal When we took the coffee tour with Jupiter we really did not expect to have such an interesting tour or one that left us with such a thirst to know even more. After all, coffee is coffee isn’t it? It grows […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the October 2012 Edition Dear Dan, Another month has gone by and everyone is starting to look into the cooler months down here in Manzanillo. I know up where you are there a little bit of a water shortage. But, doesn’t that happen every year. Not bad for a Rain Forest. […]
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By Kirby Vickery & Freda Rumford from the October 2012 Edition BACK AT THE RANCH There are two major Haciendas and many smaller growers of coffee in the Comala area. The Hacienda San Antonio nestles in the shadow of the Volcan de Fuego. The 1913 eruption of the Volcan de Fuego was particularly violent and threatened […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the September 2012 Edition Dear Dan, I hope that you enjoyed my first letter to you. I should have requested an acknowledgement but I realize that I hadn’t so I’ll not hold your responsible. From this one, however, I would like something from you to indicate you’ve read it. A discussion […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the August 2012 Edition Dear Dan, You had told me on more than one occasion that you feel that you have missed out on a lot of things that you could have collected in other countries because of your youthful and wild ways. You told me that your Navy experiences in […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the July 2012 Edition A few years ago I found myself being hired on as the Quality Assurance Manager of what looked like a small electronics manufacturing firm in New England. Actually, they were looking for a product inspector and function tester when I answered too many questions correctly and ended […]
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By Freda Rumford and Kirby Vickery from the June 2012 Edition As usual Kirby had gotten up early but then had fallen back to sleep in the old easy chair after trying to knock out another adventure novel. It became yet another morning that Freda had been allowed to sleep in. He had re-awakened to find […]
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 By Kirby Vickery from the June 2012 Edition I’ll bet that when you sat down to read this you thought it would be another one of those essays where the author lists out a whole bunch of things about the month and then glorifies some of the numerous happenstances which have occurred in various places. […]
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