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Posts published by “Zack Anderson”

Historical False Positives

The realities behind certain public health victories.https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/epidemic/charts-graphs/false-positives

The Long, Dark Shadow of Millard Means

On the evening of May 28, 1915, 25-year-old Clarence Tracy set out on horseback from his mother's home in the Cummings-Spy Rock district, northern Mendocino County. He was headed to his own cabin less than…

Ode To The Dollar Tree

The Dollar Tree store is heaven on earth, A strip mall version of a miracle birth. Candy and incense and napkins and jam, Put your wrinkled buck down, thank you much, ma'am! It's bang on…

F. Scott Fitzgerald Bites the Big Apple

Excerpted from "The Lost City," the author describes his time in New York City, 1936.https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/city/blowing-town

The Ballad of Ron and Dorinda

In 1986 two incarcerated lovebirds escaped via helicopter from a co-ed prison. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34773551/prison-break-lovebirds/

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