https://www.thefallonpost.org/author/15,michon-mackedon en Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/9109,postcards-the-wild-wild-westI wonder how many fascinating tales sleep silently in dusty photo albums or newspaper clippings piled in a shoebox? Once in a while, a curious descendant of a hero—or a rogue—hears part of a story and...]]> Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:00:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/9109,postcards-the-wild-wild-west https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/9071,postcards-fraternal-hallDuring the entire year of 1926, the Fallon newspapers covered, almost brick by brick, the building of a new Fraternal Hall on Maine Street. The “Fallon Eagle” and the “Churchill County Standard” caref...]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/9071,postcards-fraternal-hall https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/9028,postcards-you-are-the-tallest-woman-i-ever-sawMy high school classmate, Ron Lawrence, visits once in a while to tell me a story. I think—at least I hope—that he likes to see his memories preserved in a “Postcard.” A few weeks ago, he wanted...]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/9028,postcards-you-are-the-tallest-woman-i-ever-saw https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8989,living-atop-the-fallon-theatreLast week, I brought you excerpts from Mary Walker Nevada Lambert’s memoir of growing up on Maine Street, Fallon, Nevada, during the 1930s.  She remembered the details that make a place “home”: i...]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8989,living-atop-the-fallon-theatre https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8945,postcard-a-maine-street-memoryI am reading through some previous editions of “In Focus,” as the Churchill County Museum prepares to launch another edition this coming summer. I have found that if I set aside a piece of literature,...]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0800 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8945,postcard-a-maine-street-memory https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8906,postcards-graduation-1926I have been writing about the Churchill County High School (CCHS) senior class of 1926, one hundred years ago. As late winter melted into the Spring of 1926, the thoughts of the CCHS seniors turned, t...]]> Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0800 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8906,postcards-graduation-1926 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8867,postcards-cchs-stepping-stone-to-the-u-s-senateThe public speaking honors earned by the future U.S. Senator, Alan Bible, did not end when the CCHS debate squad took the state championship just one hundred years ago.With encouragement from CCHS Pri...]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0800 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8867,postcards-cchs-stepping-stone-to-the-u-s-senate https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8834,postcards-congratulations-cchs-class-of-1926Since the early 1900’s, the Fallon newspapers have devoted a good share of space and ink to the local high school students’ comings and goings—their sports victories, their academic achievements, thei...]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:00:00 -0800 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8834,postcards-congratulations-cchs-class-of-1926 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8617,our-wooden-water-towersStructures and streets have stories to tell. Sometimes we are lucky enough to reconstruct their histories, and sometimes the past remains shrouded in silence and mystery. So, when a reader asked me to...]]> Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:00:00 -0800 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8617,our-wooden-water-towers https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8588,postcards-virgil-getto-part-3Virgil Getto (1924-2014) had the distinction of serving three times in the Nevada State Assembly (1966-1976; 1978-1980; 1982-1988) and twice in the Nevada State Senate (1980-1982; 1988-1992). After he...]]> Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0800 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8588,postcards-virgil-getto-part-3 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8563,postcards-virgil-getto-part-2I have two sources to credit for information about Fallon’s Virgil Getto. Chris Hansen wrote about Virgil in the Friday, July 6, 2007 edition of the “Fallon Star Press,” and Virgil himself left a deta...]]> Sat, 20 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0800 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8563,postcards-virgil-getto-part-2 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8530,postcards-virgil-getto-part-1My friend Pat Getto brought me an article about her late husband, Virgil Getto (1924-2014). It was written by Chris Hansen and published by the “Fallon Star Press” on July 6, 2007. As Hansen summed up...]]> Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:00:00 -0800 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8530,postcards-virgil-getto-part-1 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8441,postcard-a-woman-s-view-part-2Last week, I included excerpts from the diary of Delia Thompson Brown, who, with her husband, John, was one of the Lahontan Valley’s earliest settlers, having arrived here in 1866. She and John develo...]]> Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0800 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8441,postcard-a-woman-s-view-part-2 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8407,postcards-a-woman-s-viewLast week, I wrote about Asa Kenyon, thought to be the Lahontan Valley’s first non-Native American settler. He arrived here from California in 1854, a mere 8 years after the failed Donner Party missio...]]> Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0800 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8407,postcards-a-woman-s-view https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8345,postcards-fallon-s-atomic-past-part-2On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear bomb was detonated underground in Fallon’s backyard, 28 miles from City Hall, 20 miles from Stillwater, 12 miles from Salt Wells, 5 miles from Sand Mountain....]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2025 01:01:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8345,postcards-fallon-s-atomic-past-part-2 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8314,fallon-s-atomic-pastAt midmorning on October 26, 1963 (sixty-two years ago), Fallon, Nevada, earned a permanent place in American nuclear history. At precisely 10 a.m., a 12-kiloton nuclear bomb was exploded 1200 feet be...]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8314,fallon-s-atomic-past https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8283,postcards-ranching-in-the-soda-lake-district-part-iiThe Kelly Engle family ranched in the Soda Lake District between 1920 and 1926. Engle’s story features many of the elements that run through most of the tales told by Churchill County settlers in the...]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2025 01:00:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8283,postcards-ranching-in-the-soda-lake-district-part-ii https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8251,ranching-in-the-soda-lake-district-1920-1926-part-1If you read my column regularly, you know that I like to turn the clock back 100 years to 1925, and vicariously view the way we dwellers of the valley lived then. We were in the middle of the Roaring...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:41:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8251,ranching-in-the-soda-lake-district-1920-1926-part-1 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8134,the-fallon-sanitariumThose of you who regularly read this column know that I like to page through the vintage editions of the Fallon newspapers preserved by the Churchill County Museum and Archives. Lately, I have spent q...]]> Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:20:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8134,the-fallon-sanitarium https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8092,postcards-virginia-paine-smithDr. Virginia Paine Vineyard Smith was a female physician who came to Churchill County, along with her husband, Charles Carter Smith, a druggist, in 1903. What we know of her story sounds like a plot l...]]> Fri, 05 Sep 2025 01:19:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8092,postcards-virginia-paine-smith https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8062,postcards-the-spudnut-shopLast week, I wrote about Helen Millward, National Sandwich Queen and co-owner, with her husband Bill, of Fallon’s Spudnut Shop. Anyone living in Fallon during its years of operation (1953-1978) will r...]]> Sat, 30 Aug 2025 01:39:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8062,postcards-the-spudnut-shop https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8034,postcards-fallon-s-national-sandwich-queenIn September 1961, Fallon was abuzz with the news that one of its own had just won a national contest, receiving a prize most could only fantasize about. Helen Millward, who, along with her mother, Mi...]]> Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:37:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8034,postcards-fallon-s-national-sandwich-queen https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8009,postcards-all-community-reunionFallon’s mayor, Ken Tedford, is committed to connecting the community to the wider world – if and when the community can benefit. So, when the entire globe celebrated the Millenium, Fallon celebrated...]]> Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:29:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/8009,postcards-all-community-reunion https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/7984,postcards-a-very-hidden-cave Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:47:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/7984,postcards-a-very-hidden-cave https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/7927,postcards-electricity-comes-to-stillwaterAccording to longtime Stillwater resident, Ron Lawrence, it was quite an occasion when electricity came to his family ranch. In 1927, influential Fallon businessman, Ira Kent, decided to move his alfa...]]> Sun, 27 Jul 2025 02:19:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/7927,postcards-electricity-comes-to-stillwater https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/7862,postcards-it-s-a-small-worldSummertime is a time for camping, water sports and family vacations. But it is also a time for remembering the role of the United States (and the people of Churchill County) in World War II. Summer co...]]> Sun, 13 Jul 2025 01:01:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/7862,postcards-it-s-a-small-world https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/7800,postcards-ron-lawrence-in-mannheim Sat, 28 Jun 2025 02:33:00 -0700 https://www.thefallonpost.org/article/7800,postcards-ron-lawrence-in-mannheim