Thinking back on the Lyle memoir I wrote last week, I realized there were clues he and Grace were getting restless living in Anderson Valley. …
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George Zeni’s family represented, in my explorations into American family sagas, one pattern of immigration and settlement in our country. Find the best piece of…
This story owes a great deal to an article George’s Fish Rock neighbor Steve Alden wrote for the Mendocino Grapevine in July, 1984. Steve’s recollections highlight much…
In the last episode of the House of Morgan saga I described my millworker career from the humble Point job up to the celebratory Greenchain…
In the last episode in the House of Morgan saga I reported luck more than skill had elevated me on The Greenchain to position #4,…
Sometime during the Summer of '73, after the unionization strike dust had settled at Philo Lumber, and I had resettled into the routine pulling strips…
Last week's Philo Mill story left off at the encounter between the mill Boss, Jack Davies and the sitdown strike participants gathered sheepishly on the…
Previously, I described how a small sawmill from the Timber Boom Days after World War II operated and my first week on the job at…
Gary Womack, 1940-2021, was not of our Valley; he was born and raised in a small town in southern Oregon few of us have ever…
As I rambled along in my previous Floodgate stories articles, little vignettes would illuminate themselves in dusty corners of the cerebral warehouse where the larger…
It's time to get down to the biography of Sam and Marguerite Avery's life in Anderson Valley, 1946-77. In preparation I went back to my…