Mark Kellogg, who is now largely forgotten, was the only reporter who accompanied Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and his troops in June 1876 when they clashed with Indian warriors…
Posts published by “Jonah Raskin”
The headline above the fold in the San Francisco Examiner on Thursday June 2, read “Golden Opportunity,” followed by “How the Warriors can bring us…
Norma Barnacle burned most of the letters she received in 1909 from her lover who signed his name, “Jim.” But she didn’t destroy all of…
Greg Sarris—the Sonoma State University professor, who is also the longtime chairman of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria—has been spending so much time…
Alice Walker, who you recently read about in the pages of the AVA, is in trouble again, once again for something that she wrote. The…
In France, and all around the globe, eyes are focused on the French presidential election, though not many citizens seem to be hot and bothered…
Have you ever felt like a fraud? Maybe you have at some juncture in your own life. Right now I feel like an imposter. I…
To understand San Bruno Mountain today it helps to know some of its history. After all, it’s probably the last frontier in the San Francisco…
Born in St. Louis near the Mississippi River, the author, teacher and ecologist, Jane Wolff, lives and works in Ontario, Canada. “Up stream” is how…