Older residents can still recall the bitterest stigma of the disease.
"This is making me nervous," one resident recalled telling her husband.
The Nigerian soldiers said they had come in peace, the residents of this small village recalled.
Another resident at the time recalled, "She was very neat and clean.
Most residents can't recall exactly when they first began seeing the dog, but they say it was probably at least three months ago.
Some residents here recall the national attention Plano received in 1983 when seven of its young people committed suicide.
Other residents recalled hearing screams coming from the floor where the fire originated.
Sunday dinner open to the public was a legendary feast, as some residents recall, at $2.00 per person in 1946.
Even older residents could not recall any such unofficial demonstration ever occurring here.
Old residents recalled the presence of a big water tank painted with red lead on a hill behind what later became the town.