For the last week, between the hours of midnight and sunrise, the spirit of every noise pollution law ever written has been broken by the…
Posts published in “Day: March 27, 2014”
Pretty much like today, those – like me – who lived in Anderson Valley from the 1950s through the 1980s depended on cars to get…
The recent drought in Northern California made me think of the last one back in the mid-seventies when I was living about six miles up…
As opposed to Robert Frost's two roads diverging in a wood, it is often the convergence of two paths that proves just as unexpected and…
Country inhabitants of the Ohio river valley have endured the most arduous winter in memory, at least for people 77 years and younger. While the…
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (Viking Press, 1939, 619 pp.) turns 75 this year, and for many decades it has been regulated to juvenilia,…
Since medieval Germans attached pedals to their organs way back in the 14th Century, the instrument has been as much a gymnastic apparatus as a…
Marcia and I are on the two-movies-a-month plan from Netflix, and many of the movies we watch are foreign films and documentaries.
Since I am, at the very least, a semi-regular Contributor to the AVA, and haven’t contributed anything for awhile, I figured it was time to…
Deputy Mourned;
Memorial Pillaged;
Chaney's Release;
Nuts for Parrots;
Flocking to Point Arena;
Agricultural Nuisance;
WSJ Touts AV Appellation;
UN Reviews Kent State;
The Second Coming;
Trucking 30 Million Smolts