It was a dry Anderson Valley day in late January this year. The morning temperature was crisp, the sun warming, and the light and shadows…
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Donald Trump leads by example. He does so with his thumbs. He leaves it to others to jump in the cockpit of the bombers or…
I was walking down the street with my friend and a guy asked us for money.
“I can give you some food,” I said. He walked on, then turned back and said, “You got a samwich?”
When I was of preschool age in the 1950s my mother's method of discipline when we traveled about in public was to inform me that…
A ragged 10-year-old boy is picking barefoot through an ocean of trash, patiently searching for anything of value that his family can turn into food…
You never know what you'll run across. While researching other matters I found this item in a March, 1925 publication, with the headline, “Woman Turned…
Advertising has come a long way since the days when they'd just brashly trumpet the superiority of the product in a general way, saying things…
London’s Bridge Theatre opened its steel and glass doors late last year on the South Bank of the Thames. The theatre takes its name from…
In his book On Television, Pierre Bourdieu warns against the twin temptations of historical analysis: everything is totally changed and unlike anything that went before,…
History is long, but memory is short. Anderson Valley’s early settlers may have arrived in the 1850s, but the valley’s history began millennia earlier, with the coming of Native Americans. These First People left little to indicate their presence here, but they were here.
No, it’s not the end of cannabis in California. Not yet. Farmers and gardeners will be able to grow and harvest their own plants, if…