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Dan England / For Craig Press
Pete Pleasant rings with numbers he doesn’t recognize more often than yours. Sometimes, it’s those dang-blasted marketers trying to sell him something. But many times, it’s someone wanting to pick his brain about Craig.
Pleasant was born in Craig in 1939, and save for college and a brief stint in the military that ended when his football injuries sent him home (honorably), he spent his whole life here.
“I’m not smart enough to leave,” Pleasant said.
Pleasant likes to say things like that because he likes to joke a lot, but he will also admit that he likes his status as one of the town’s historians. He didn’t plan on being that, but his memory, sharper than a paper cut, left him with no choice. He hasn’t written anything down or taken photos. It’s all up in his head. He can, for instance, walk downtown with you and tell you every single business that was there in the 1940s and 1950s. He can remember someone in a photo from a 1950s