The Wisest of The Wise Acres On 66

 October 19, 2026

   As you must know by now, I grew up in Mohave County and I swear many of my classmates were the cat's pajamas when it came to being a Wise Acre.

A Wise Acre Sunrise Over Ratcliff Ridge

   When our MCUHS English teacher, Fay Logsdon, asked a certain Wise Acre what the definition of chicanery is, he confidently replied, "stationary for chickens." It got a big laugh at the time (October, 1964). 

Fay Logsdon

Senior English teacher extraordinaire

   In another class, while Mrs. Logsdon was lecturing on witches and ghouls, she rhetorically asked, "We all know what happens to ghouls," and the same Wise Acre replied, "Yes, they become band directors."

Stanley Gould, MCUHS band director

   Another Wise Acre in the same class was this guy:

Boxlip Darell & Date

   I'd give you an example, but Boxlip Darell earned his nickname for being very, very profane.

   And it just wasn't in the sixties. There was an earlier time when Mohave County Wise Acres sounded like this:

"Hyde the fact," as in the editor of the Mohave County Miner, James J. Hyde. Oh, man, that is some serious Wise Acre behavior. And, I mean that literally: it's not even a little bit funny. But James was being a Wise Acre, Mohave County style. Which is to say, very lean on actual humor.

   Meanwhile, up the road, this guy was one of the wisest of the Wise Acres I have ever known.

Marshall Trimble, who grew up in Ashfork

"Our school was so small, we had Driver's Ed and Sex Ed in the same car."

—Marshall Trimble