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Assignment: Ukiah – Thanksgiving For The Thankful

Here comes Thanksgiving, a once-grand holiday of sharing and gratitude, slowly having the joy wrung out of it by the usual mob of angry dimwits who spend their days moaning and weeping over the fact…

I’m Not Dead & I Can Prove It [May 28, 2008]

Once I had a good friend who called himself Captain Fathom. He said I was his best friend. He asked me to publish his memoirs. He paid for the printing and kept all the profits.…

The Hastings School Of Law

A stern visage, the picture of 19th century rectitude, used to look down on passersby from a banner at the corner of McAllister and Larkin, fin de siècle San Francisco. The banner celebrated the adjacent…

Boonville, ’72

One thing going on in Boonville is the contest at the November 7 election for judge of the Anderson Justice Court between Homer W. Mannix, incumbent, who wears several other official hats in the small…

My Cousin Rusty (Norvell)

You wrote so engagingly about my cousin Rusty Norvell in the AVA after he died in a car wreck that I'm moved to round out the picture. His neck was broken; his car intertwined with…

The Fort Lawton Frame-Up

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…

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