Kenny Darlington was born on February 10, 1931, at home in a sod house on the Midway Ranch, He was the second oldest of six children born to Harley and Alma Darlington, and the only one not delivered in a hospital. As Kenny likes to tell it, when his dad came home from the mountains that night, “he had two sons instead of one.”
Midway Ranch earned its name as a resting point for travelers who couldn’t make it to town in a day. Over the years, it welcomed many characters, including a young man who would later become one of the best swimmers in the nation, Ted Erikson.
One of his earliest memori...
