At the beginning of August I drove from the Oregon Coast to the middle of New York State mostly on U. S. Highways and state…
Posts published by “David Yearsley”
Greta Thunberg’s four-minute jeremiad at the United Nations this past Monday was delivered not standing behind a pulpit or kneeling on rocky ground. With perfect…
The body politic has human parts: head, limbs, heart. That body has an abundance of these in the case of the royal giant that brandishes…
Free tickets from a friend sent my companion and me to a production of the musical Big staged by the Berkeley Repertory Theatre on a…
Other than the basic press blurbs, I could find no detailed reports of the music performed at the recent state banquet held in the Buckingham…
The attacks of September 11, 2001 reinstated for more than a decade the Empire State Building as the highest structure in New York City, a…
By November of 1770 the English organist, traveler, and man of letters, Charles Burney had been on the road for five months, touring the Continent…
As historic Midwestern floodwaters receded, another “bomb cyclone” attacked the central U.S. this week. It is a time of extremes: to the south wildfire danger…
From Stanford University in Palo Alto, California northwest to the State University of California at Chico it’s a neat 200 miles—the kind of distance the…