During my years in Anderson Valley, which began in the late 1950s and continued to the late 1980s, the most popular local outdoor recreation was…
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Change is inevitable, even in Anderson Valley. Some aspects of the valley have changed markedly from when I first arrived in the late 1950s and…
As noted in my earlier article “Big Timber," logging was a major commercial activity in Anderson Valley for more than a century and had two…
Soon after we arrived in Anderson Valley in 1957, my father nailed a couple of elk horns onto the trunk of an oak tree in…
In this era of e-mails, instant-messaging and tweets, it can be difficult to remember the importance of the local post office in earlier times. In…
This trip back to the Anderson Valley of my youth, from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, began with a review of the region’s…
It seemed to begin about two years ago, which means it really started about four or five years ago (funny how memory works); suddenly there…
With vineyards everywhere one looks in Anderson Valley today, it may be hard to believe grapes weren’t always huge here. Believe it. Anderson Valley agriculture…
In reading the Anderson Valley Advertiser, I am amazed by the wealth of entertainment and dining one finds in the valley today. Concerts at Lauren’s.…