You never know what you’ll turn up at a book sale. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. While working on the Mendocino County history…
Posts published by “Katy Tahja”
Spend 40 years driving by the same interesting-looking place along Highway 20 and saying “…Some year we should check that out…” and finally we got…
Anyone living in Anderson Valley or on the coast has driven by this location a gazillion times and probably noticed a small sturdy stucco building
Don’t panic. We’re talking almost ancient history here. As I sorted through research materials acquired while writing a 150-year history of Mendocino County I look…
As an historian nearing the end of writing my first draft of a history of Mendocino County from 1852-2002 I can’t help but being intrigued…
Primary resources, in a historian’s world, are original materials upon which researchers can study to begin writing books or articles about any person or subject.…
Sometimes at Burning Man you just really screw up. You say something to someone, or do something that is really inexcusable and you’re mortified. But…
Did you ever have that neighbor you’ve known for years offer a proposal for solving a societal problem that just blows you away? Practical or…
Ever heard of a wine block or a grape brick? While working on the history of Mendocino County I’m writing I was trying to establish…