(August 1976) Wetness. The waves. Sand between your toes. Salty air And sea water. Pebbles on the shore And an occasional shell. The soft breeze, With mist And the roar. People. Smiling faces And sunburns. And beach balls And running children. A seagull. The otters, Looking for shellfish. Playing in the waves And tidal pools.…

(July 1976) The parade. Decorated cars. Fire trucks. Clowns. The Crowd. Cheering And the laughter. The fire cracker A smoke bomb. The children. Flags And soldiers. Games to play. The booths. A logging show. Fireworks. Red. White. Blue. And other colors too. Like a clap of thunder; The sound of rockets, In flight. O can…

(July 1975) Crane the neck. Look up. Over the fence. The eye’s see, As the nose pops over the edge. Look there! Someone comes. A trailer Dweller. The neighbor walking the dog. The dog does its thing. Laughter. Nosiness. Jus’ gawking. Seeing nothing important. Feeling dumb. Again the neck cranes. Look up; Look over the…

While at work it has occurred to me that I am lacking in leadership skills. With that in mind decided to sit down with my bible and start compiling a guide of what makes a great leader. 1. “…If anyone wants to be first , he must be last, and the servant of all.” (Mark…

(April 1996) Poor Billy Baggens — He saw many men a-hangin’ But the one that was the worst, Was the one that he came to curse, When it was his own heels draggin’.

(February 1975) The rocky road. Brown with oil, Caused by the trucks. Passing trucks, Rolling onward. Into the yards. All flat; The logs stacked up On the cold deck. Waiting to be barked. The fork loader comes. Menacing jaws And fanged teeth. Looking very hungry The logs are its food. It attacks. Biting the first…

(February 1975) The spider stops; Sensing another being. It raises its legs. Move onward. Changing directions. It stops again. Still. Resting upon its web. Forward. Swiftly crawling. The black fly. Reckless. Buzzing wildly. Into the sticky net. Trapped. Down drops the spider. Dangling. Viewing its quarry. Moving gracefully. Void of hurry. The attack. The Panic.…

(April 1980) “Let me out!” She screamed and cried As she put on her pretty little pout Then sighed. I was sad for this little gal As cute as a bugs. She needed a lift in morale This I could plainly see For days I went to see To Cheer and make laugh For this…

Newspapers in Del Norte County date back to 1854, and top honors go to the Crescent City Herald for being the first to publish in northwestern California. The Herald was hot off the press in June of that year. The Herald’s initial run beat the Humboldt Times off the press by a few months. Its…

The village of Gasquet takes its name from French immigrant Horace Gasquet, who arrived in Crescent City from France in 1853. The village’s name, however, is not the immigrant’s only legacy. He is in history books as having been quite the entrepreneur, one with a hotel, general store, farm, barn, blacksmith, town bar and winery…