Whether your traditional observance of Memorial Day is as tribute to those who who have died during or after military service or as the official opening weekend of summer, there is no reason not to accommodate both. At 3pm local time every Memorial Day a nationally declared “Moment of Remembrance” is observed. Just a quiet…
Hitch up the team and come on up. Yes, those horses are actually wearing snowshoes! Plumas County history is in large part a history of transportation and the amazing feats of derring do that our brilliant and intrepid pioneer ancestors exerted in the winter months to simply get around. One of those methods which I…
Today’s Word: Powder I have a friend who grew up in Chicago. She moved to California in the 70’s because in her words, “I never wanted to see snow again.” Yet the mountains never seemed to stop their persistent beckoning and eventually she made her home here in Graeagle. She explained her change of heart…
There are few things I enjoy as much and can still do just as well as when I was a kid…riding my bike is one of them. You won’t see me in lycra or careening down rutted mountain dirt trails. My kind of bike adventure is more of a meet and greet, baguette…
Both of my daughters now live in San Francisco. They are forging their way through the wilderness of adulthood armed with the confidence and good sense they got by growing up country girls. They make me proud. San Francisco is one of my favorite places to visit, a place of incomparable beauty and history, a…
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