"Though it seems too many people think I am." He retired in 1986 from the company that operates the restaurants and food items that bear his name, and he still spends his days down on the farm tending to his 2,500-acre, 1,000-head cattle ranch named Hidden Valley. He's Bvlgari B.zero1 35mm BL-56 involved in several pet projects, from helping to promote college opportunities for Appalachian schoolchildren to spreading the word about a yearround grazing program he believes will save family farms. But it was his early achievements in the sausage-making and restaurant businesses that have forever linked the humble Ohio boys name with rustic farmlands, country kitchens and old-fashioned cooking across the country.
Evans was born in 1918 in Bvlgari Bvlgari Assioma Lady BL-81 Ridge, a hamlet near Bowling Green, and livedthere until his father moved the family to Gallia County to run a small chain of grocery stores. After attending Gallipolis High School for two years, he graduated from Greenbriar MilitarySchool in West Virginia in 1937. Evans then studied to be a veterinarian at Ohio State University for nearly two years. He left college to pursue his true love - farming. But, it wasn't until he returned from World War 11 in 1946 that he found his life's calling.Back then, Bvlgari Bvlgari Assioma Lady BL-82 and Jewel had had the first two of their six children and lived on a farm near Gallipolis. To help keep up his mortgage payments, Evans hit on the idea to open a 12-stool,
24-hour diner to cater to the steady volume of truck drivers who stopped off in Gallipolis at all hours of the night and day. Always hungry for breakfast after long drives, the truckers hadfew options for such food, Evans recalls. His restaurant- he called it a "steakhouse"-was a hit with truckers who Bvlgari Bvlgari Quartz for Ladys BL-53 notget enough of the steak and eggs. "Actually I opened the restaurant so I could pay off the mortgage on my farm," Evans says. I never thought it would develop into anything big. I was content with having my farm. It's all I ever really wanted." But once he added sausage to the menu, the place really took off. "At the
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