Author: Fred Gardner

A 30-second spot. The screen shows a poster for the movie Casablanca.  Dooley Wilson is singing “… You must remember this…”  QUICK DISSOLVE to footage  in which Bogart, at a table in his cafe, is being...

A Conversation with Supervisor Terence “Kayo” Hallinan  (11/13/91 in the Anderson Valley Advertiser) AVA: Your plan was to tax The Giants and the 49ers to help pay for high school sports? Hallinan: Yes –high school and...

After posting this memoir, I moved from the East Bay to a town in Sonoma County. Unpacking, I’ve come across some items that I would included in the Kayo Chronicles. Here they are: • A 1978 Christmas card from the Hallinan...

In the AVA 4/20/25 “Stealing From the Rich: The Home-Stake Oil Swindle” by David C. McClintick (Evans, 1977) recounts how a Tulsa, Oklahoma lawyer named Robert Trippet masterminded the most lucrative Ponzi scheme of...

  By Bill Drake, illustrated by Terry Rutledge, calligraphy by Jim Drake. Published in 1970 by the Agrarian Reform Company, Eugene, Oregon.