Journal of the Plague Year
Berkeley, CA; Week of 3/16 — Sunday afternoon. Preternaturally quiet. Church on the corner, with its small, aged, African-American congregation, has suspended…
World Water Day
Monday morning my Ocean Conservancy calendar proclaimed that today is World Water Day. A quick peek at Wikipedia reveals that WWD on…
Be Prepared & Don’t Panic
By the time I picked the miners lettuce in the meadow it had already flowered and was tougher than it would have…
The Disappearance of Mrs. Strong (Part 3)
(The previous two installments described the imprisonment of R.G. Strong in 1873, the 1874 murder of his wife in the Sherwood area,…
AV Land Trust Sues Peachland Family (Part 8 of 17)
Did the almost $100,000 the Anderson Valley Land Trust spent to sue me on a contrived and fictitious lawsuit get paid for…
Fort Bragg with Plague, March 2020
Turning off Highway 101 onto 20 West the day before St. Patrick’s Day brought a foreboding chill, maybe even a shiver. When…
Remembering Kayo
Being the son of a great man isn't easy. As a reporter I had seen Terence Hallinan in some very dramatic situations…
Albion Bridge Completion in 1944
Tom Wodetzki of the Albion Bridge Stewards recently gave the Kelley House Museum an interesting document. Its title is “Final Construction Report…
A Response to Steve (& Janet) Snyder
Steve: Since you are on the “advisory committee” for the Anderson Valley Land Trust, I'm glad you might be engaged and thinking…
More Reasons to Hate PG&E—Sometimes
(Lakeport) — It may seem like going after low-hanging fruit to take a shot at PG&E these days, but there is an…
The Disappearance of Mrs. Strong (Part 2)
John Simpson (think Simpson Lane south of Fort Bragg) and Robert White, early white settlers of the coast and employees of the Mendocino Indian Reservation at Noyo, traveled inland…
Fires & Food
It was October 26th, and I was writing a simple article about the power going out in Arcata and the subtle social…