Did you ever have that neighbor you’ve known for years offer a proposal for solving a societal problem that just blows you away? Practical or…
Posts published by “Katy Tahja”
Ever heard of a wine block or a grape brick? While working on the history of Mendocino County I’m writing I was trying to establish…
If we’re lucky in our lives we get those few very precious days when Everything. Is. Perfect. You couldn’t ask for more. It could be…
As a historian in the midst of writing a 150 year history of Mendocino County I spend a lot of time reading the first county…
My father-in-law Andrew Tahja started his working life as a whistle punk. What does that mean? On a logging show often workers cannot see each…
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.”…
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…