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.”…
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Like all misadventures this one started simply enough. In the process of research on the 150-year history of Mendocino County I am writing I decided…
While researching Mendocino County’s geology as I prepare to write a 150-year history of Mendocino County I was re-reading “Mineral Commodities Of California” published in…
Mobility Camp at Burning Man exists to get folks out on the Black Rock playa to see art and bright sparkly things when they can’t…
I’m weird. I admit it. I go on a 3,768-mile car ride through Eastern and Midwestern back roads and I find the strangest darn things…
Surrounded by depressing news on health care and a non-functional president and congress I decided to escape the real world and treat myself to a…
As a historian I’ve always been fascinated by shipwrecks, but not in the conventional manner. Yes, there is drama in the ship crashing on the…
Last month the 79th annual Redwood Region Logging Conference (RRLC) in Eureka was attended by thousands of folks of all ages celebrating everything related to…
Why, you might ask, would anyone try to get to Hambone, California? Where the heck is it anyway? And what’s there when you get there?…
Historians doing research are always coming up with interesting tidbits that deserve sharing, like a file full of gruesome accidents reported to the local newspaper.…
My husband an I are firm believes in the old fashioned concept of a “Sunday Drive.” We find a road we’ve never been on, make…