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At the Alva First Friday Art Walk last week, Patty Barker greeted me with a big smile, “I have good news.” She said she promised her husband, the late Jim Barker, that she would get his books published. The first book is now published. I found it on Amazon by searching for Jim Barker.

“Old Alva and Woods County” is a collection of Jim’s columns published in the Alva Review-Courier. Although Jim was primarily a sports reporter for the paper, his columns covered a wide range of topics including a lot of stories about the history of Alva. If you grew up in the county, live in the county or have t...