“Believe me my young friend, there is nothing—absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind...
Every spring, California gray whales make a monumental pilgrimage from their winter breeding grounds in the warm lagoons of the Sea of Cortez to their...
Radioactive glassware is a hot commodity—literally and figuratively. Uranium glass, colored with the radioactive element, was manufactured throughout much of the nineteenth and early twentieth...
Emmy-award-winning make-up artist and perfumera Leanne Hirsh landed in Topanga seven years ago. “I’ve been a make-up artist for forty years, since my teens,” said...
West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) announced the launch of its “Being Water Wise Is…” student art contest. Completed entries from service area students...
Learn how to conduct Home Ignition Zone Evaluations on February 9th & 10th! During this training attendees will learn about wildfire regimes and the importance...
Volunteer with the Resource Conservation District to plant native oak trees! Help to reforest the woodlands of the Santa Monica Mountains. RCD is hosting two...
Surfing was big in the 1920s. The sport, recently exported from Hawaii, attracted some unexpected enthusiasts. George Bernard Shaw gave it a try. So did...
While teaching eighth graders about the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, I tended toward emphasizing the larger picture of social and...
[Surfing] is one of the most perfect physical pleasures that I have known. —Agatha Christie, An Autobiography In 1922, at the age of 31, British crime...
So, let’s take inventory here at Johnny-on-the-Spot corporate offices overlooking the glorious sprawling metropolis of Bakersfield CA. I have reviewed an album, a film, a...
Victory gardens are gaining popularity again, this time in response to the war against COVID-19. Industrialist millionaire Charles Lathrop Pack is credited with creating the...
In Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West (2006), renowned narrative historian Hampton Sides introduces us...
During the second half of the eighteenth century there gathered along the eastern seaboard of North America an enlightened generation of thinkers whose collective will...