This is something new for our Class of '61 blog. We're featuring an interview with a Valley City High School "schoolmate," rather than simply a "classmate." It's Paul Merrett, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Merrett. Paul is a graduate of the VCHS Class of '62 and we're pleased that this boyhood pal of mine consented to have a Zoom conversation with me in April. He visited with me from his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico. How does a Valley City-to-California lad get to New Mexico, with a stop for Uncle Sam in Vietnam?
Well, living and working in California, Paul and his wife, Thava, decided to retire in 2004. They felt they couldn't do it financially in the Golden State with California real estate prices so high. Both being from small towns in the Midwest, they realized they would be more comfortable in a smaller community. They had been reading New Mexico magazine for a long time and decided to check out the towns and available properties there. In the Four Corners area of New Mexico called Aztec, they ended up buying an adobe house on an acre of land and moving there in 2005. They lived there for ten years and then decided to move to Las Cruces in the "banana belt" of New Mexico, and as Paul says, "they moved away from some winters that were almost as harsh as North Dakota. Neither one of us is a fan of snow." - LG 5-2-2022
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