When I was a youngster in the late 1950s a series of thick foggy evenings meant my father would usually conclude supper with the comment,…
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I was walking down the Talmage road one afternoon in late summer/early fall, about an hour before dusk, if memory serves. As I recall, the…
Last week I received a threatening letter from Bob Edwards, CEO at Mendocino Coast District Hospital, informing me I was to be terminated for ‘serious…
Images taken a few weeks after the Tubbs Fire swept through this neighborhood during the early morning hours of October 9, 2017.
Asha Kreimer went missing from the Rollerville Café outside of Point Arena under mysterious and confusing circumstances on Monday, September 21, 2015. She has not…
While researching Mendocino County’s geology as I prepare to write a 150-year history of Mendocino County I was re-reading “Mineral Commodities Of California” published in…
At this time of year in 1879 Mendocino County was consumed with news regarding what came to be called “The Mendocino Outlaws,” a band of…
Later this week I’m flying to Philadelphia to visit friends that just moved there from Brittany, in France. Then I’ll be driving up to New…
The Fort Bragg City Council met October 23, in a fast-moving session that gave away $3 million bucks to the richest not for profit in…
When I moved to Texas back in 1981, the first thing that struck me about the state, after the stifling heat, humidity, and lack of…
For at least as long as people have talked about the weather, they have made music about it—from rain dances to pastoral symphonies, from the…