Fifteen years ago a South African music enthusiast established aweb site that he called “The Great Rodriguez Hunt.” Rodriquez was an obscure singer/songwriter from the…
Posts published by “Malcolm Macdonald”
On Labor Day the Albion River moved at less than a trickle. Gravel covered much of the riverbed and the tiny flow of water could…
My name is Malcolm and I’m an ice cream addict. During summer and fall I’m often able to sate my needs with homemade product made…
This edition of the AVA hits the streets on August 29th; on the same day in 1892 traveling salesman Whitcomb Judson was issued a patent…
In the 1920s the Albion Lumber Company hired one of the first college educated foresters. On his initial day on the job he rode the…
Last week in the Mendocino County Clerk-Recorder’s office a great grandfather was not permitted to pick up a birth certificate for his great grandchild because…
Bruce McEwen’s July 18th article in the AVA detailed the ill-fated trip of Kevin Dirksen and his two children after parking their van near Ukiah’s…
Quicker fellows than me at the AVA noted online in the July 14th “Mendocino County Today” (“Mendocino County Today” appears in the AVA’s print version…
When I came home from a backpacking trip to Desolation Wilderness one of the temples of my eyeglasses was drastically out of balance with the…