HISTORY LESSONS: Letters from Bitter Creek

MEEKER | My mother-in-law, Pat Hendrickson lived in Meeker about a year before passing at the age of 94. She didn’t get to meet most of you, so I would like to share some of her humor with you now. Her Christmas letters were hilarious stories of life. You will need a little background for her letter to make sense. Her references to the “Wolf at the door” reflected the uncertain economics of farming. Ernie…