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Posts published in June 2021

March to Kennedy Lake

We left the east bay at 4am sharp headed for Tuolumne county in the area of the Sonora pass. We rolled up in Jake’s diesel Lariat to the Kennedy Meadows lodge and trail head just…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, June 20, 2021

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Mendocino Outlaws: Shootout at Nimshew

The posses chasing the Mendocino Outlaws rode, walked, and sometimes crawled over a thousand miles in pursuit of the killers of two men east of Mendocino on October 15, 1879. After crossing the Sacramento River…

Huckleberry Biden

To cook crack you need cocaine, water, baking soda, a heat source (microwave, stove, torch, cigarette lighter) and a spoon or a jar of the right thickness. Disregard the occasional splintered jar or finger burn,…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, June 19, 2021

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Marx in the Afterlife

1. According to Bob Dylan On Rough and Rowdy Ways, the album Dylan released on the eve of turning 80, there's a song called "My Own Version of You" in which he shows us Karl Marx…

Wine Spectator on Bankable Cannabis

Paul Masson coined the slogan. Orson Welles repeated it dramatically in one of the most memorable ads ever in the world of viticulture: “We will sell no wine before its time.” No doubt about it,…

A Bear Named Club Foot

Mendocino County pioneers loved to share stories about interactions with bears. Here’s one from a little booklet called “Lore of the Coast: Fact or Fiction” published by the Mendocino County Historical Society about 50 years…

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