Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Beat Generation lives on at the No Name Bar
Fifty years ago this month, the late columnist Herb Caen of The San Francisco Chronicle coined the word “beatnik.” As it happened, a recognized Beat Generation — epitomized in literature by poet Allen Ginsberg and novelist Jack Kerouac — had made its presence known over the previous decade, and six months earlier, the Soviet Union [...]
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
‘Still Life With Raccoon’
‘Still Life With Raccoon‘ (My school of art obviously lies somewhere between R. Crumb and Art Nouveau) Black Mountain with the Giacomini Wetlands in the foreground. Much of what is now Nicasio Reservoir, Point Reyes Station, and the land in between was once owned by the Black family, whose daughter Mary married Dr. Galen Burdell, [...]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Nature’s Two Acres XXVII: Animals about town
This yellow journalism stinks, I said to myself last Wednesday morning upon picking up my San Francisco Chronicle at the bottom of the driveway. As I discovered with displeasure, one of the neighborhood foxes had peed on it. Foxes are like that, marking relatively prominent spots around their food sources and dens. Last year, neighbor [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Photography,Point Reyes Station,West Marin nature,Wildlife by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Newspaperman from Chileno Valley describes his life in the United Arab Emirates
Chileno Valley ranchers Mike and Sally Gale several weeks ago returned home after spending a fortnight in the Middle East visiting their son Ivan, a newspaperman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Sally, Mike, and Ivan Gale at their Chileno Valley ranch last Christmas. In 2003 and 2004, Ivan was an excellent reporter for The [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in General News,History,Marin County,The Point Reyes Light Newspaper,agriculture by DavidMitchell
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Point Reyes Station and Inverness Park demonstrators call for a pedestrian bridge over Papermill Creek
Gathered on both sides of Papermill Creek Sunday morning, 125 West Marin residents demonstrated their support for a pedestrian bridge at the site of the onetime irrigation dam for the Giacomini Ranch. Demonstrators including surfboarders, kayakers, several dogs, and people on opposite shores assemble for an Art Rogers photograph Sunday morning. A line over Papermill/Lagunitas [...]
