The sixties was the decade when the frightened cry of “Timber!” was everywhere in the unclean air of publishing. The flow of competitive daily newspapers…
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There are people who have lived all their lives in Mendocino County who don’t know where Island Mountain is and have never been to Covelo.…
Way back at the start of senior year at our coastal Southern California high school, one of my very best friends Tom said to me…
Vietnam, G.I. was a first-rate newspaper founded and edited by SP/5 Jeff Sharlet in January 1968. It was an almost-monthly tabloid. This piece is from…
It was the winter of 1956. The Vice President of the United States, Richard Nixon, was trying to convince voters that he would be a…
Bainbridge Island, Washington. It was 1973. I was eight years old and Hollywood was into disaster movies. Somehow, I fibbed my way with a friend…
Some 23 years ago I had some free time and I wanted to serve on a Sonoma County Fair Board. This honor is an appointment…
I was still about half drunk when my plane touched down in San Diego. It had been three weeks since I signed my enlistment papers,…
When you leave California and return to Arkansas in the spring time, you immediately notice how red the earth is and how green the grass…