The original AVA compound, aka Fort Despair, was the Boonville headquarters of the America’s Last Newspaper, but also ground zero for an ongoing social experiment featuring a non-stop parade of visitors, victims, concerned parents, perpetrators,…
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One night in 1954, I was coming out of my driveway and could see a red glow in the sky to the south. As I came closer to the town of Hopland, the red glow…
The title probably caught your eye thinking this would be a great story about Cannabis!! Haha. This is actually a perspective on the eradication of outdated ideas about mental illness, addiction & homelessness and the…
Things were about as exciting as they get in Mendoland on Friday, July 20th, 2001, when the MV Mendocino was officially christened at Noyo Harbor in Fort Bragg. A band played, people cheered, Mendo poobahs…
I met Anne Fashauer at Mosswood on a wet Saturday last month for morning coffee and ancestors story-telling. We consumed about two hours of her recollections, along with a political discussion about real estate commission…
Just because I'm authoring this narrative, please don't expect I will tell you what the Reboot (found in the subject line above) is all about. It is not to be found here. I have no…
You’ve all driven past it, that intriguing shop at the old Floodgate building in Philo on the 128, a couple miles east of the Navarro Store. It was always the dinosaur statue in the front…