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Posts published in “Essays”

Helping The Homeless

If you were going to try to pin me down politically, and I wouldn't advise it, it might be necessary to compile something like one…

Trippet Gets Her Due on NBC

On New Year's Eve, NBC San Francisco will air a documentary that gives Albion activist Pebbles Trippet proper credit for advancing the movement to legalize marijuana. Peter…

Mendo Mail & Maritime History

Between the late 1880s and the early 1930s mail was delivered to my grandparents home here at the Macdonald ranch simply by addressing their name…

Comptche Outlaws & The Unwritten Rule

Every once in a while it’s important to remind people in Comptche that we are outlaws. And we have been that way for quite a…

Mendocino County Schools In 1880

As an author in the midst of researching a new book on Mendocino County history I found myself perusing the “History of Mendocino County, California.”…

Stickup

By way of analogy allow me to exaggerate about how to rob a bank without a gun. First, you become an elected official—say, a Mendocino…

Listening To Fukushima

The dread sound of Fukushima hardly sets the joyous Christmas bell to ringing. But a recent disc bearing simply that name from the experimental jazz…

Branding Fort Bragg

The Fort Bragg City Council met at Town Hall last Monday night in another meeting running to the legal maximum of 10pm. From the outset,…

The Goat Island Mystery

At one time early in the twentieth century Fort Bragg, California, was home to three dozen whore houses at the same time. The most unusual…

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