Post-its
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...
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A Compliment From Westy
By Fred GardnerThe New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about...
Read MoreTrippet 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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Hammett v. McCarthy
The removal of 381 books from the US Naval Academy Nimitz library last week was flashback-inducing...
Read MoreThe 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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