Fort Lawton doesn't exist anymore – not as an Army base and not in historic memory, unless you come across “On American Soil” by Jack Hamann (University of Washington Press, 2007). In 1944, 43 Black…
Posts published in “Essays”
On November 22, 1977 I left a “Sheila and Jessie” concert at the Garberville Theatre and headed north toward Eureka to UPS a box of canning jars full of trimmed weed, the first pound I…
The iconoclastic American composer become cultural monument Charles Ives was born 150 years ago last Sunday. Ulysses S. Grant was then in the midst of his second term as president. Ives’s father George, the formative…
I’ve neglected watching television and most of its mutations for several years, and this makes me less than well-informed on news and developments. Indulge me if I speak the obvious, but was the recent launch…
If you ask random people if there’s a lot of voter fraud affecting elections many may say, incorrectly, that yes there is. They might say that because of the right-wing Republicans’ (RWR) strategy, in the…
The national election looms, like a tsunami of uncertainty. Right now it’s a prevailing source of anxiety, dread, hope and confusion. Predictions and polls are rampant and just add to the unrest. Understandably, many have…
It’s not often I will travel hundreds of miles to see a place I’ve wanted to see for decades with sorrow in my heart. That’s what happened when I went to see Hetch Hetchy 20…