G.. Moss Rock Drive

Bob Zybach: he goes, well why would a man his age want to get married, and he goes, I didn't say he wanted to!

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Bob Zybach: Does this creek have a name down here? Do you remember it?

Roy Cook: Not to my knowledge.

Bob Zybach: Do you call it any name?

Evelyn Weigel: [EVELYN] Huh uh.

Bob Zybach: Just part of Soap Creek, huh?

Evelyn Weigel: [EVELYN] Uh huh. And did you guys, you probably don't remember this either. Did you hear they used water from the creek to water all the outside things, didn't they? Yeah.

Evelyn Weigel: [EVELYN] There is still some pipe. I need to...

Kevin Sherer: [KEVIN] Wooden pipe?

Evelyn Weigel: [EVELYN] No, its uh, I think it's newer than that, yeah. But up until. . . I need someone to help me do that, I'm a widow, so I'm kind of thinkin' well maybe by next year, I'll have someone that will help me do this.

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Roy Cook: it was a lease option, I think, option to buy, I don't know for sure.

Evelyn Weigel: [EVELYN] Uh huh.

Bob Zybach: He just gave us some of the records on the place from 1913, or 1915?

Kevin Sherer: [KEVIN] 1915.

Roy Cook: '14 and '15, yeah.

Bob Zybach: And it's got descriptions of the property and map and the whole bit, so there's plenty of information to go on.

Evelyn Weigel: [EVELYN] So, what, you're writing an article now about this?

Bob Zybach: I'm writing a book.

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G. Moss Rock Drive

Bob Zybach: Can I get that on here? There's been some debate on why it's called Soap Creek? And that name goes back to 1850.

Roy Cook: Well, I didn't even think of that. But it wasn't clear. And it had a soapy feel to it, particularly up in here.

Bob Zybach: Do you know what caused that?

Roy Cook: I have no idea.

Bob Zybach: Okay, can we take this next little, I think it's the next right turn here, yeah.

Kevin Sherer: [KEVIN] Moss Rock.

Roy Cook: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: And then the one right beyond it. Just, just a short hop over there.

Roy Cook: Right here.

Bob Zybach: Yeah.

Roy Cook: Now, there's a bunch a houses up here aren't there?

Bob Zybach: Yeah. I just want to.

Roy Cook: This is where Pullman lives, up in here somewhere.

Bob Zybach: Oh, Pullman lived up here were Moss Rock is?

Roy Cook: Uh huh, at the end.

Bob Zybach: Wow, look at that tree just came over that house. That's why I'd never have these next to the house. Roberta Hall lives up here.

Roy Cook: No, I don't, I've never been up this road, so.

Kevin Sherer: [KEVIN] I haven't either. Okay, well, there's a place up here we can see down in the valley, I thought you might be able to get a perspective.

Roy Cook: Now I don't know which place is Pullmans. That must be it there, because one guy, a neighbor came up here. I was invited up here but he didn't tell me about it. He sent the invitation to both of us, the guy that got the invitation didn't tell me about it.

Bob Zybach: Are you married Roy?

Roy Cook: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: And you've got what, four daughters?

Roy Cook: Yeah. They're scattered out . . [unintelligible].

Bob Zybach: Are they interested in family history or anything at all?

Roy Cook: One daughter is, but she lives and teaches in China Lake, California.

Bob Zybach: Will she get the papers on the Cook family history?

Roy Cook: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: And what's her name?

Roy Cook: Sally.

Bob Zybach: Is she a Cook?

Roy Cook: Yeah. Well, her name is [Sally Cook] Valiton, she's married. Boy, this road goes forever.

Bob Zybach: There's a picture in that tour guide of a guy sitting on a horse called Billy Bowlegs and it's taken from up here.

Roy Cook: Straight ahead?

Bob Zybach: Yeah.

Roy Cook: Now it was up in here somewhere where we were logging.

Bob Zybach: Okay, so you logged with Vincent up in...

Roy Cook: Wait a minute, now where's that red house from here? Back that way?

Bob Zybach: Red house? Should be almost due south of us.

Roy Cook: Well hell, that barn should have been right down in there somewhere then. The creek's right here.

Bob Zybach: So there's a bridge to a barn that was at the red house?

Roy Cook: Yeah. You know, that other barn where I pointed out where I said the garden was down there.

Bob Zybach: 1That was kept in that barn?

Roy Cook: Just hay. Hay and stock, I suppose, but there was none in there when . . . God, this is all new country to me.

Bob Zybach: Well you haven't been here for 60 years.

Roy Cook: Well, there weren't any roads over here. That big old barn was damn near as big as that thing. Yeah, just about the same size. But it was all beat up. For cripes sakes. Yeah, that was just about the same size of that old barn but it was, it's probably long since fallen down.