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PETALUMA 6 YOSEMITE 0

June 21, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Petaluma Argus Courier, 28 May 1923 Page 3 PETALUMA 6 YOSEMITE 0 (By Sport Hicks) The Leghorns hung the sign of the Indian on the Yosemite Market nine of San Francisco Sunday, on the home grounds, the score being 6 to 0. Despite the miserable weather a goodly number of enthusiasts attended. The wind blew … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Content, Faits Divers, History, Sea Stories Tagged: 1923, a corking good game., Baseball, breaking benders, chucking, foozles, looloo, Petaluma, Petaluma Argus Courier, San Francisco, Sport Hicks, swell ball, the firing line, The home team, torrid sack, Yosemite Market nine

One More On The Egg Boat

May 28, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Petaluma Argus Courier, Number 223, 11 May 1923 One More On The Egg Boat The steamer Gold, the only known boat to catch its own fish, broke all records yesterday on a down trip through the tule region when it kicked six bass into the pantry frying pan. The Gold wears a paddle wheel under … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, History, Sea Stories, This Day in History Tagged: Bass, California, Dead Goat, Egg, Paddle Wheel, Petaluma, Steamer Gold

COURTED TO THE WHIR OF SAW MILL WHEELS.

March 12, 2023 by sergneri 2 Comments

Petaluma Argus Courier, 3 March 1900 COURTED TO THE WHIR OF SAW MILL WHEELS. W. H. Joy and Mrs. Weiberts of Healdsburg were married in Santa Rosa Thursday. The wedding is the outcome of a long acquaintanceship extending over several years, both parties spent in the Mill creek redwoods near Healdsburg. Years ago Joy was … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, History, Sea Stories Tagged: 1900, Edith Joy, Effie Beresford Joy, Healdsburg, Mill creek, Mrs. Weiberts, Nellie Joy, redwoods, social pleasures

Charles Wakefield Cadman

January 26, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

While correcting the San Francisco Call, 26 October 1918, I ran across this article: ANNOUNCE SECOND TRIO CONCERT Provided the embargo on concert gatherings is raised before the date set for their second concert of the season, the Shavitch-Saslavsky-Bem Chamber Music Trio will give their next programme at the Italian Room of the St. Francis … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, Faits Divers, History, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: 1918, 1918 Spanish Influeza, Charles Wakefield Cadman, From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water, San Francisco, Spanish Influenza, St. Francis Hotel

Books in 2023

January 10, 2023 by sergneri 2 Comments

Last half of “Bleeding Edge” by Thomas Pynchon 01/06/2023 – Done – enjoyable. Checked out “Rising : dispatches from the new American shore” by Elizabeth Rush from the library – good account the present impact of rising seas on a few areas in the world and a cautionary tale about the future. She’s an excellent … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Climate Change, Content, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, History, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, Slavery, the Anthropocene, Thinking about, This Day in History, What I Read Tagged: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Against the day, Albert and the Whale, American Midnight, Bleeding Edge, Coal wars : the future of energy and the fate of the planet, Don DeLillo, Elizabeth Rush, Herbert Gold, How Markets Fail, John Cassidy, Ka, Philip Hoare, Richard Martin, Roberto Colasso, Slow Learner, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Thomas Pynchon, Walter M. Miller Jr, White Noise

“Smile like a hairdresser / Giving Cameron Diaz a shampoo.”

January 9, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 A Serbian-born American, he left the impression in his verse that he had “poked a hole into everyday life to reveal a glimpse of something endless.”

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Obituaries, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: Belgrade, Charles Simic, poet, poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize

The labyrinthine patterns traced by birds on the wing – in pictures

October 29, 2022 by sergneri 1 Comment

From the Guardian 10/29/2022 – The labyrinthine patterns traced by birds on the wing – in pictures by Alice Fisher. On a hike one day, photographer Xavier Bou, who is based in Barcelona, wondered if the flight paths of birds could be captured on paper. Through research he realised they could – and represented in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Environment, Faits Divers, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: birds, birds on the wing, flight paths, ornithographies, photographer, photographer Xavier Bou, Xavier Bou

The surreal photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard

October 28, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the Guardian October 28, 2022, The surreal photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard “Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972) was an American optometrist and pioneer of experimental and surreal photography, working in Kentucky. Heavily influenced by Southern Gothic literature, his carefully constructed, haunting images are on display at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: experimental photography, Meatyard, Photography, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Southern Gothic literature, surreal, surreal photography

The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s Fog

September 14, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s Fog  from the New York Times of 09/14/2022.  

Posted in: California History, Climate Change, Environment, Faits Divers, History, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene Tagged: California, coastal fog, fog, fog catchers, fog horns, Golden Gate, mariners, Northern California, redwoods, San Francisco

Our Neighborhood Fox Family

August 1, 2022 by sergneri 3 Comments
Posted in: Content, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: Backyard, Chard, Fox, Foxes, Wildlife
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