“So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay” — Robert Frost
Ipulled my jacket close against the chill stirring of an early breeze. A heavy silence enveloped the world in the final, darkest minutes before dawn. …
Story by David A. Laws
Wanna buy a boat?” called the bewhiskered leader of a group of men hauling a battered rowboat up the Yukon River bank near Fort Gibbon, Alaska in 1908.
Henry Hayes Perkins watched intently from a distance. The crude vessel, constructed from whipsawed lumber waterproofed with…
“This is what made computing really take off!” — Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO
On November 15, 1971, Intel Corporation ran a two-page advertisement in Electronic News, the industry weekly newspaper, proclaiming ”A New Era of Integrated Electronics.” With Intel barely two years old, the announcement of The MCS-4 Micro Computer…
“A touch of color ‘neath skies of gray … But then the sun came out again, And sent us happily on our way” — Dyrenforth James and Gibbons Carroll
Story and photos by David A. Laws
The landscape artists of Portland, Oregon, have crafted prize-winning gardens that glow with color…
“Success was called LUCK by those that failed. From observation, nine-tenths of the ‘luck’ came from hard work and judgment.” — Charles Camden [1]
According to forty-niner Charles Camden, it took hard work and judgment, not just luck, to make his fortune prospecting for gold. These same characteristics in later…
That one nation’s hero is another nation’s terrorist is seldom addressed in school history books. Most children learn of the villainous redcoats in the American war of independence. Few texts tell of American-led attacks on the British Isles. Or that the last invasion attempt led to the printing of the…
“We had heroes in the Cold War” — Carol O’Neil, State Park Volunteer Historian
John le Carré dismissed Cold War spy heroes as “ A squalid procession of vain fools” in his 1963 espionage novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Volunteer historian Carol O’Neil at the former…
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“I would like to write the story of this whole valley, of all the little towns and all the farms and the ranches in the wilder hills. I can see how I would like to do it so that it would be the valley of the world.” …
Towering three-hundred feet above the Pacific Ocean’s crashing surf, one of the West’s most faithfully restored ghost towns occupies prime ocean-view real estate just 25 miles south of my hometown of Pacific Grove, California.
Inhabited by chickens, a cow, and families with children until less than 50 years ago, the…
