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Posts published by “Bruce Anderson”

Rabbani Kenyon’s Landmark Art

In December of 2008 the late Johnny Winter, famous blues musician, appeared in Navarro to perform at the Navarro Store. That appearance was improbable bordering on the impossible. A man who played to thousands was…

Jim Jones In Mendocino County

Another Anniversary of Jim Jones' mass murder of his black parishioners in Guyana was recorded on November 8th, but if it was noted anywhere I didn't see it. Usually the grisly event is squeezed by…

The Hitchhiker [December, 2008]

The hitchhiker was at the Boonville exit on 101. It was about noon. As I passed her she clasped her hands in mock prayer and shot me desperate eyeballs that pleaded with me to please,…

Pearl Harbor Survivor [my annual remembrance]

Count me as one. I was two, my brother one, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. My brother and I were born in Honolulu, Our paternal grandfather, a Scots immigrant, was…

Multiple Drug Arrests In Anderson Valley [2008]

Mendocino County's Major Crimes Task Force roared into Anderson Valley in a fleet of unmarked vehicles, headed for the old Bachman Hill School in Philo and an Anderson Valley Way, Boonville, address. It was Tuesday…

Full Moon Shines On The Boonville Fair [2008]

I like the Fair best that first day, that Friday early afternoon when the flowers are still fresh, before the crowds become so thick it's hard to find old friends among all the strangers, the…

Commie Days

I was a delegate representing the Noe Valley to the founding of the Peace and Freedom Party at the Richmond Auditorium in 1968. For the three days that strange assembly had gathered to organize opposition…

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