This township is located in the Coast Range, almost all in and embracing the whole of the watershed of the Navarro River and a small…
Posts published in “Day: July 23, 2013”
IT'S ALMOST HERE! Not-So-Simple Living Fair 2013 is in just a few days. We're ready for you, so make your way to the Mendocino County…
The fabled City Lights bookstore in San Francisco is sixty years old this year. They're having a lot of celebratory events to mark the birthday.…
July 24th marks the anniversary of Anthony Johnson acquiring 250 acres of land in Northampton County, Virginia during the summer of 1651. Anthony Johnson was…
The California Highway Patrol has plenty of critics, and a crop of new young officers has appeared in Mendocino County, who, these critics say, are…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. There is no doubt that “Cat Heaven” is an even better place…
About 15 years ago when I was living in Philo, working as a pastry chef in Mendocino and baking pastry to sell at a few…
Harry Anslinger, the longtime Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, is widely considered the prime mover behind marijuana prohibition. But during the Congressional debate…
Division over the viability of railroad development is sure to spike now that trails-friendly Arcata Councilmember Alex Stillman has been pulled off the North Coast…
The Mendocino Music Festival is upon us once again, and that means several things to me now that I’ve lived in Mendocino for eight years. The village will be cloaked in fog for many days of the festival, a majestic white tent will stand upon the headlands across the street from Dick’s, my darling wife Marcia, who has played in the festival orchestra for all the twenty-seven years the festival has been going, will practice her cello even more diligently than she usually does, the village population will be peppered with sophisticated classical musicians from urban areas who have come here to play in the festival orchestra, there will not be enough Mendelssohn on the program for my taste (I love Mendelssohn), and there will be so much fantastic music to hear, both classical and otherwise, that it will be impossible to attend but a small fraction of the musical delights on offer.