Ed. note: The copy pasted below was sent to The Advance by our esteemed local historian and retired professor, Rene Torres, who can usually find something of interest to send in every week. This issue’s bit of Valley history was published in the 1975 edition of “Southwest Features,” titled, “Discovering the Rio Grande Valley.”I first moved here, Cameron County, in 1979 to go to work as a pilot for Hunt Pan Am, based out of the Brownsville Airport. What’s printed below is the Valley I remember from those longago days, when indeed, this place was a pastoral delight, free, for ...