It was common years ago to report to the local newspaper if you had managed to grow the “biggest” of anything. From historian Nannie Escola’s newspaper clippings, we found attention directed to the “biggest” things…
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A conductor waves his arms in front of other musicians. The audience usually sees the maestro (less often maestra, still) from the back. Hidden from the concertgoers during the performance, the conductor’s face can convey…
It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to determine the point at which smallish, people-friendly towns evolve into big anonymous cities that grow to the point they become unlivable. I knew a guy who talked about…
A long, long time ago — 70 years on — life granted a great gift to a young boy. I was that boy — little Charlie Dunbar — and that gift was living for a time in the small town of Chapman, Kansas…
Cruising down the Willits end of the Willits Grade one Tuesday evening back when the AVA was a newspaper printed on newsprint at about 6:30pm , traveling in the slow lane at a leisurely, lawful…
The wheels are coming off the Good Ship Climate Change, and crop yields from Wind Farms are expected to be low once again this year. The sky continues not to fall, and predictions that Fort…
Decades ago Dr. Richard White practiced medicine on the Mendocino coast. He loved sharing interesting information the gathered. His publishing of “Mendocino Medicine and Gazetteer” allowed him to share his views on rural medicine and…
Nature makes music—the wind, the waves, the rain, the rustle of leaves, the creak and complaint of trees. The human impulse to transform these sounds into something that might be called Automatic Art spawned the…
Since Anderson Valley is a small place (population around 3,000), the odds of knowing, or at least knowing of someone who dies in the Valley is fairly high. Valley residents tend to be in groups…