DOOLEY LIVES AGAIN: A MAN, A MAP, AND SIXTY YEARS OF RUNNING WATER

The Gazette's Thursday front page put Frank Dooley back into the district's memory, and the district has received him warmly. The 1964 photograph — Dooley squinting into the sun beside what we now know is the stone junction marker on the Henderson land — has been studied at the café and the servo with the seriousness usually reserved for stock reports and bad news.

The channels he dug are still moving water this week. Clarrie Burton said so, on the record, in this newspaper, for the first time in eight years. We note that Clarrie read the finished edition alone on the bench Thursday evening and sat there longer than a man simply satisfied would sit. The bench, it should be said, is listing at an angle that suggests a structural…