Some of my favorite childhood memories involve barbecue events. Whether we are talking family, church or community events, the visions from the past are special. Around the Clark house, we have various pits and smokers we use for preparing meat of all kinds when it’s a family gathering day celebration or just me and my wife. Remembering the early St. Stanislaus Festival Days BBQ events that I witnessed as a kid, I don’t recall the old-timers who manned the pits using anything other than oak firewood. Several times I helped my uncle Phil Kindla in the pasture gathering wood in his ...