Introduction to Project

Long ago, well, not all that long ago, say seventy years ago, the Heyser family met Paiute Mountain, in the southern part of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. It lies south of the Kern River Valley. They also met an early rancher, Nick Williams. 

After a few years they filed on the old Gehringer Claim, which had an old cabin,  and renamed it High, Wide and Handsome. The Cabin began to take shape on that claim. Today all that remains of The Cabin is a stone chimney. People who camp at Camp Nick Williams (known as French Meadows in the good old days) call it the Stone House.

Throughout the years many people came to visit, friends of the Heysers, business associates, friends of their children, and The Cabin seemed to exert an almost mythic effect on the people who remembered it in later years. 

The purpose of this blog is to invite people still living who have memories of The Cabin to set them down on paper, well, electronically for now, before there are none to remember and it will be just an old chimney, the Stone House. 

Ken Harris (husband to Joanne Heyser)

(My wife made me write this!)