By the summer of 1980 the China of Mao Zedong's Communist Party was the result of 30 years of applied radical ideology. Every aspect of life had been relentlessly re-thought and restructured to conform to…
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Travel broadens one’s horizons (it also shrinks one’s wallet, but that is a discussion for another day). During the pandemic years, my travel was limited to car trips. However, broad acceptance of the Covid vaccine…
Ed note: 96 years ago, the Apple Fair in Boonville was marked by the dual tragedies described in these articles from local newspapers. Many thinks to Debra Silva for finding them. Fort Bragg Advocate News,…
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Gary Johnson and I met again at his mother Eva’s house’s back yard to fill in the “rest of the Johnson Ranch story.” I asked Gary about his first memories which took him to recollections…
The National Association of Piano Dealers reported 364,545 sales of new instruments in the United States in 1909. That was four times the number of automobiles manufactured in the country that same year. This output…
MARINE INFLUENCE will begin to increase today with cooler conditions all around but especially for the coast. A cold front early Monday will bring widespread wetting rain, especially for the North Coast. (NWS) STEPHEN DUNLAP…
HARD FOUGHT LOSS TO VISITING TOMALES SATURDAY At The Boonville Fairgrounds, Coach John Toohey Reporting: We lost 32-38. Our last shot from about the 15 yard line hit the dirt just beyond our tight end’s…