Twice a year, every spring and fall, Ithaca, New York hosts one of the biggest used book sales in the United States. Staffed by a legion of volunteers who work for months accepting and organizing…
Posts published in “Essays”
Feliz Creek at Hopland is a parched summertime expanse of dry streambed barely discernible as a water course. Only when it comes alive in the winter as it runs off from its headwaters in the…
Way back when I was an undergrad student at UC Santa Barbara, a fair number of Vietnamese refugees had been and were being relocated to the “student ghetto” of Isla Vista. Some of them even…
It’s hard work being a Democrat these days. If it isn’t the lies and deceptions, it’s the dishonesty and denials. And that’s just the stuff they tell their own party members. Sadly, the average Democrat…
I first heard about a faster way to the waterfall in Russian Gulch State Park years ago, but never tried it, because who needs a shortcut when the long way is so beautiful? Yes, the…
HarvestFest 2007 at Navarro the late Fall night in 2007 was a huge success. The organizational abilities of Dave Evans, proprietor of the Navarro Store, and co-organizer, Megan Nelligan, in not only attracting big name…
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…