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Growing Up Out Proctor: Pap’s Deer Hunt By Gary Eller - | Mar 17, 2021 For many years, my dad Thad went on week-long deer hunting trips in the mountains of central West Virginia with his nephew Bob (my first cousin, the youngest son of Uncle Okey). Pap had a special relationship with Bob, who often stopped at our place with his wife and two girls to “set awhile” and gab on our porch. One year, Bob bought a two-ton flatbed truck so they could a build a camper to take on their annual deer hunt and not have to sleep in a tent. Unfortunately, they started construction too late to have th...

Growing up in Proctor: The Night Skylab Fell on Roy Palmer’s Place By Gary Eller - | Mar 3, 2021 In May 1973, amid much public hoopla, NASA put the huge Skylab satellite into orbit. It remains the only U.S.-only space station ever put into orbit. Skylab suffered damage during launch which required later attempts at repair, accompanied by more hoopla. Unfortunately, models predicting a nine-year lifetime for Skylab were short by several years, and by early 1979 it was clear that Skylab would fall to earth sometime in the summer or fall of that year. NASA budget limitations led to the omissi...