This collection of essays compiled from my now defunct blog, "Notes from an Eclectic Mind," are more memoir than history. If you, my reader, were there . . . if you knew these people, or saw them another way . . . those are your memories. These are mine. I want more to capture the essence of days past, of a time when I knew remarkably genuine people in the small town of Junction, Texas. These nostalgic impressions, however, are not just for the folk...