Interview with Gordon Barker, a long-time resident of the Similkameen Valley. Part one includes discussions about range farmers, his marriage in 1940, contributions to the museum and the credit union, as well as his school life and family tree. Interviewer describes the intentions of the oral history project. Part two includes discussions about trains in the region, the 1948 and 1972 floods, working at the old Shell gas station, and access to medical care in the Similkameen Valley. He mentions Oliver and Marjorie Richter, Dick and Mark Houston, the Morrison family, Tony Campbell, Tom Daly and the Niells family.