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Posts published in November 2021

Founding Father of American Song

Less than a month before the first presidential election of December 1788, Francis Hopkinson published his Seven Songs for the Harpsichord or Forte Piano, dedicating the set “To His Excellency George Washington, Esquire.” Hopkinson was a Philadelphia…

Laytonville Memories

Hello Mr. Anderson & Mr. Livermore, That was some article about Indiana Slim’s Red Hots band and the legendary Piano Jimmy. A pair of fascinating and completely opposite memories from those days. Whoever wrote that…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Nov. 1, 2021

Overcast Rain | Wettest October | Zachery FFA | Sporting Panthers | Cloverdale Boiling | Birthday Nine | Narcan Save | Local Kids | Water-Table Rise | Ed Notes | Crumb Chakras | Supes Briefs | Transwolf | Water Storage | Lake Mendo | Mitomka Gunplay | Without Money | Feeding Arsonists | Yesterday's Catch | Wheatfields | Gambian Poet | Give/Take | Billionaire Escape | Nuke On | Old Europe | Brandon Freakout | Ukiah Cowpoke | Animal Love | Ancient Relic | Water Proposal | Turkeys | Evangelical Drift | Smoking Mask | Pfizerganda

Another Fiasco in Berkeley

The shit is hitting the fan in Berkeley, again. The city, which is notorious for not thinking clearly or honorably about People’s Park and its legacy, announced plans recently to install a public toilet on…

Flipped a Coin, Moved 3,000 Miles

So I semi-temporarily left Ukiah for a town even more dismal, and live on a street with traffic worse than North Dora.  Historically I have done my important planning, as in finding a new home,…

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