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. Concerts at the Navarro Store. The Anderson Valley Film Festival.…
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My occasional trips into the Valley pass the Redwood Empire Mill near Cloverdale, and I can’t help but look at the log deck and contrast it with the log decks of 50 years ago.
Travel back again on the wayback machine into the Anderson Valley of my youth and young adulthood from the late 1950s into the 1980s. The title of this installment is an ambiguous expression that dates…
Off we go on the wayback machine to the Anderson Valley of my youth, this time from the late 1950s into the 1980s. However, this one begins in the present day. My recent visits to…
Step aboard the wayback machine for another trip to Anderson Valley of my childhood in the late 1950s and 1960s — and in this case, into the 1970s. I begin with an apology for taking…
Ah, television; the electronic hearth that has dominated American home entertainment — and American culture — for more than 60 years. Today Anderson Valley residents enjoy television delivered via a multiple technologies: cable, satellite and…
Before there was an Occupy Hendy Woods movement, before there was a Hendy Woods State Park, there was Hendy Grove.
As I drive into Anderson Valley on Highway 128 for my occasional visits, I see mental snapshots taken during my childhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Sheep at Hulberts. J.T. Farrer’s store in…