For the Future
The climate on our planet is changing; and reversing the inevitable seems as if it will require a bit more cooperation than humanity has yet been unable to muster. The alarm bell has been ringing for so long that...
The Axe Handle
In 1974 I found myself traveling through Arkansas on my way to California. Since I wasn’t old enough to drive, I hitched a ride with a man driving a large truck. He had in his possession an axe handle...
Best of 2022
How are we already at the end of the year? 2022 was a strange roller-coaster ride, but it wasn’t all bad. In our last issue of 2022 we look back on some of our favorite, most hopeful and most...
Rewilding the Planet
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and...
Topanga’s Rocket Women
You don’t need to be Elon Musk to build a rocket. There is a group of Topangans who made one. You can see it from the Santa Maria Canyon View Ridge Trail. Look north east about a mile as...
Conversations with Nature and Reflections on Our Future
Topanga Canyon Gallery Starts the New Year with Two New Solo Shows Topanga Canyon Gallery is pleased to present the first two solo exhibitions of 2023; Where Have All The Flowers Gone, by Kate Browning, and La Tierra by...
Christmas on the Homestead
The earliest written account of Christmas in the Santa Monica Mountains appears to be one published by Frederick Hastings Rindge in his 1895 book, Happy Days in Southern California. Rindge describes his ranch house in Malibu festively decorated with...
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