For the last five years, downtown Point Reyes Station has been unusually quiet—at least, when it comes to livestock sounds. Since the 1980s, a rooster’s crow and a cow’s moo had issued from the roof of the Western Saloon, indicating noontime and 6 p.m. every day. But one day it fell silent.
That silence ended last Sunday, when the sounds kicked off the Western Weekend parade, thanks to the work of Richard Dillman, who claims…