In this era of e-mails, instant-messaging and tweets, it can be difficult to remember the importance of the local post office in earlier times. In many rural communities, the post office was the epicenter of town life — a mixture of civic center, news source, message center and marketplace. This was certainly true during my time in Anderson Valley from the late 1950s to the late 1980s when the Philo Post Office served all those purposes.
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