Being a lawyer was a practical way to work for peace and social justice in 1967 when Terence Hallinan began his career, because many people seeking to advance those causes were getting busted and needed…
Posts published in June 2020
Love, it has been said, is a many-splendored thing. By Andy Williams and Han Suyin, anyway, who, respectively, sang the song and wrote the book that became the 1955 feature film. How exactly you splendor…
I remember it starting out as a regular monthly weekend drill. Out of bed Saturday about 4:00 A.M. Search in the closet for my fatigues, combat boots, and patrol cap and put them on. Bump…
JIM WAGONER will be a familiar name to Coast radio listeners. He writes: "I'm an old radio news guy who lived in Fort Bragg in the 1980s and 1990s and worked at all the stations…
THE FIRST FIRE of the season broke out Monday afternoon about 3 roughly five miles up Nash Mill Road. CDF called out aerial support units — spotter plane, two tankers and a helicopter with bucket.…
Being a very fortunate guy, I’ve lived within sight of the California Coast my entire life. I’ve also been a reader and collector of books about and/or set in this fabled zone, and one of…
Growing up in Marin County, Bill Kimberlin remembers his mother taking him to visit the set of “Blood Alley,” a 1955 Cold War adventure set in China starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall, back in…
As AVA readers have interest in Mendocino County history beyond the Anderson Valley the following is offered. It’s easy to be researching one project and get waylaid by interesting materials that have nothing to do…
Above Normal;
David Summit;
Eighth Night;
False Positive;
Early Mendocino;
Jackson Search;
Lumber Ship;
Tear Gassed;
Weeping Maiden;
Poetry Celebration;
Hazel Hill;
Prison + Exile;
Pomo Wikiups;
Sheriff Statement;
Iris;
Masked Heroes;
Wind River;
Dream Deferred;
Smudge Torch;
Ed Notes;
Yesterday's Catch;
Militarized Police;
Born Black;
Cattle Drive;
Facebook Resignation;
Coastal Trail;
Planning Agenda;
Social Science;
Cop Tossed;
Switzer House;
Recognizing Bias;
Found Object