Nonfiction

One in a series of historical nuggets that local author, historian, and teacher Jim Gregory has mined from our rich, robust, and sometimes rowdy past here on the Central Coast of…

[caption id="attachment_7088" align="alignleft" width="125"] Lee Herrick[/caption] The Coastal Dunes Branch of the California Writers Club is kicking off California Writers Week with an afternoon of literary exploration on Sunday, October…

Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino   The long hallway from the lobby to the KVEC radio studio on Sacramento Drive in San Luis Obispo is lined with memories, vintage black-and-white…

In the spring of 2015, on a three-week trip to Paris and the British Isles, I took my new Samsung Galaxy S6. I was able to use Facebook, respond to…

*Or, My Quest To Find the Brothers Grimm   An autumn leaf collection, with dates and places written on each one in black ink. Paper cut into the shapes of…

I fancy myself a bicoastal woman. The forging of this status began on a bitingly cold day in Lexington, Massachusetts in the winter of 1959 as I walked with childhood…

This event was scheduled April 1, 2024. Get a taste of what's coming up at this month's SLO NightWriters meeting when Dave Congalton interviews critically acclaimed writer Deanne Stillman on…

Along with three other sightless bundles of fur, the entity destined to spend 20 years of her life with me was born in the early morning hours of the first…

Halloween is upon us. Prepare to be assaulted by all kinds of vampires, werewolves, and other ghost-like creatures that cloves of garlic, religious crosses, and even silver bullets aren’t likely…

Local historian and award-winning writer Jim Gregory has just completed a new video, Writing Local History—That Isn't Local. He writes that it's a kind of primer. "Because no matter how…