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MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH 
December 13, 2024 0 49  
Christmas in Topanga, 1942 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 13, 2024 0  
The Coastwatchers, TNT’s original fiction series set in Malibu during WWII, concludes in this issue. Our story began in December, 1941, just after the United States entered WWII, and ends on Christmas, 1942. Coastwatchers focuses on the experiences of...
New Books: Local Authors / Local Interest 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 29, 2024 0  
This is TNT’s annual holiday season round up of new books by local authors and new books on subjects of interest to our local community. For more local books published earlier this year, check out our summer reads list...
Mushroom Madness 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 1, 2024 0  
Fungi can cure or kill, nourish life, and also decompose it back into soil. Fossil evidence for fungi is limited, but the ability to analyze molecular data has led to revelations about the evolution of this extraordinary family of...
Fool’s Gold: The Myth of Tiburcio Vasquez 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 18, 2024 0  
“And still of a winter’s night, they say,  when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon  tossed upon cloudy seas,    When the road is a ribbon of moonlight  over the purple moor,    A...
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Paradise 

Suzanne Guldimann, July 15, 2022 0 3 min read  
“Very near terrestrial paradise,” that’s how Frederick Hastings Rindge, the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist who once owned the entire Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit, described life here. And more than a hundred years later, it still is, isn’t it?...
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Summer in July 

Suzanne Guldimann, July 1, 2022 0 4 min read  
Do we really live in a country where rapists are valued more than the women they assault? Where a handful of extremists with an almost non-existent understanding of human biology have the power to strip millions of women of...
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Earth Day 2022 

Suzanne Guldimann, April 22, 2022 0 3 min read  
April 22 is Earth Day. This year marks the 52nd anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. It’s a movement that was in part ignited by one of California’s worst ecological disasters: the catastrophic Union...