It was the winter of 1956. The Vice President of the United States, Richard Nixon, was trying to convince voters that he would be a wise choice in the upcoming Presidential primaries. His advisers had…
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Crime novels are as common as the cold cold or the coronavirus, but riveting crime novels set in northern California are as rare as criminals with real brains in the world of Dashiell Hammett, the…
Bainbridge Island, Washington. It was 1973. I was eight years old and Hollywood was into disaster movies. Somehow, I fibbed my way with a friend and his teenage, baby-sitting sister into a matinee screening of…
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Maybe you’re hoping to get in on the Next Big Thing before it’s replaced by a later, newer trend that’s cooler and hotter. Heard about Pickleball? Pickleball is cutting edge, under the radar, ahead of…
As a docent at Mendocino’s Kelley House Museum researching a book on the Orr Hot Springs area last year I had amassed more information than I could ever possibly use in what I planned to…
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