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Posts published in March 2014

Farm To Farm

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 blizzard of '77 lingers on in family photo albums, with…

The Grapes of Wrath Turns 75

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, to high school students, to young people inept at work…

Bach Was Never This Buff, Never This Bad

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 tool for musical expression. The most famous report of J.S.…

Off The Map

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.

Blocked!

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 protect said Contributor Status, and submit an article. The term…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, March 27, 2014

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

MORNING ROSES

You are invited to MORNING ROSES: An Introduction to Waldorf Preschool and Kindergarten, on Saturday, April 26, 9:45 am to 12:00 pm, at the Waldorf School of Mendocino County's Calpella campus.  Bring your young child…

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