Putting away research materials now that my new book “An Eclectic History of Mendocino County” is done I got to thinking about how I came…
Posts published by “Katy Tahja”
While people pontificate about what should or shouldn’t happen to PG&E after this recent potential disaster and power shut off, it was a good wake-up…
Pyrotechnics: the art, craft and science of fireworks. Want to see it done incredibly? Go to Burning Man where people LOVE to blow up things.…
I’m sure readers everywhere pick up a book they remember reading a decade ago, are interested enough to read it again, and remain firm in…
“What’s a Limb Cast?” Any geologist or rockhound can tell you. If you bury any or all of a tree in hot volcanic ash the…
While not falling into the “Lost Cause” category, attending a County Planning Commission meeting when you KNOW your side is going to lose, eats up…
In what’s becoming an annual tradition the Kelley House Museum in Mendocino is hosting a book sale of history books Saturday May 25 from 10…
While praise and glory has been heaped on California governors and biographies written about them, standing behind almost every one of them was a First…
Every few years my husband and I save enough to go on a tour with our favorite travel group, Mountain Outin’. The tour director finds…