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Trippet Saga

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...

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The Cultivator’s Handbook

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

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Breadbox

This breadbox –an old garage-sale score– was upside down when I unloaded it in Kenwood. And I wondered if the artist was camouflaging the map of Africa.  

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