My Cousin Elmo says, “Had Adam and Eve been Rednecks, they have ignored the apple and eaten the snake and we wouldn’t be in all the trouble we’re in today.”

Batman bought Catwoman a drink. She spent the rest of their date slowly pushing it off the table.

Virginia City unveiled a statue honoring a woman with a unique place in Comstock history. “True, she was a woman of easy virtue. Yet hundreds in this city have had cause to bless her name for her many acts of kindness and charity. That woman probably had more real, warm friends in this community than…

Since it was family night, my assignment was pretty straightforward: take photographs of families, moms, dads, and kids having fun. But before the evening was over, things would take a decidedly nasty turn for the worse. As I looked for my next shot, I found myself cornered by three men wearing faded denim vests and…

It was the pained scream that alerted me to the fact the two neighbor boys were on the front porch. It is one of their favorite places to hang out and play. Rushing outside, I found one of the boys with a hammer in one hand and a large sewing pin in the other. The…

The invite came from Texas, a woman born and raised in England and nicknamed after the 28th state in the Union. It read: “You are invited to the Virginia City Idioglossic Breakfast Club gathering this Monday at 9 a.m.” Fuzz répondez s’il vous plaît’d immediately. The morning of the gathering came, and Fuzz learned it…

For years I have called myself a ‘mediocre man,’ not because I don’t try hard, but because I have not found that source that leads to an increase in paychecks or fame beyond my self-belief. I can write, photograph, draw, paint, produce short videos, and do all kinds of broadcasting. But none of these have…

Markleeville, Calif., resident Susan Korngold recently learned from a cousin doing their family tree that she was related to James Fennimore, half-brother to her great-great-grandfather. In 1900, William Hickman Dolman described James as a “frontier hunter, and miner, a man of more than ordinary ability in his class, a buffoon and a practical joker: a…

All along the Comstock, Adolph Sutro is synonymous with mining and engineering, having designed and built the tunnel that bears his name. In early 2021, Friends of the Sutro Tunnel approached the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP) if they would donate historical interpretive markers and three National Park Service-style inclined laybys. The JASHP…

South of the Humboldt sink in Northern Nevada, Brady found two bodies. Miners murdered, bearded, hairy heads mounted on nearby pikes. Removed cleanly by a sharp instrument, Brady felt sure he was looking for someone with a sword. The hoof and dog prints made him think of a mounted Calvery soldier in the company of…