The Pearl Valley Incident

Part I: Miriam Gilley, 1937 and Part II: Everett Skeen, 1927

Miriam Gilley

Pearl Valley

1937

Folks like to say it crashed, but that ain’t so. 

When all the papers come along and started asking around, everybody agreed I was the only one who actually seen it. So it’s my story to tell. 

I remember because I was about eight months along with Lula. Granny Elsie had been by. 

There was a little skift of snow from that morni…