Edward Winslow’s Good Newes from New-England published in 1624 in London begins its account in November of 1621. There is no word of the first Thanksgiving. As David Silverman shows in his This Land Is…
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Winter in California, decades ago. I’d come back from traveling the world for almost two years after graduate school, with the primary aim of reuniting with my long lost true love. We’d rekindled it all…
Jim Snyder, our High School Principal, sued me in court in Ukiah. I’m still trying to figure out why. Some current news stories feel eerily familiar. Lawsuits have been filed but are lacking any supporting…
Bob Dylan, now in his 80th year and whose shadow blankets the last half-century of American culture, is both a celebrated hero and a man whose journey has doubtless been a burden. Who would want…
I have always wondered what happened to a corn maze after Halloween. I think about all of the work just put into raising the corn. Having to figure just what plants to omit so that…
In the early 1980s I did logging work on the Lookout Ranch for the Shandel's of Comptche. My impression was they had purchased the property from Ida Jackson, the proceeds of the sale were donated…
I can still remember that first fare in my New York taxi: an older white-haired woman standing at Union Square on 17th Street. I cruised to a stop and picked her up but had no…