Nonfiction

Behind Barbed Wire, a look at Central Coast Japanese American life during World War II, was held on January 31 at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande. The program included…

This guy would've been 100 years old today. I sure miss him. There was no one funnier than him, or as mischievous, or as nimble with words. I once saw…

[caption id="attachment_7634" align="alignleft" width="275"] Patrick Moore, center. After Sarah died, Moore married Mollie O’Connor, at right. At left is Annie Gray, later Annie Gray Shannon. Photo Courtesy Michael Shannon.[/caption] Irish-born…

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…

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…