Scotia Past
A trip back in time to a company town at the crossroads
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Scotia Past
Throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s, HSU art professor Ellen Land-Weber made numerous visits to Scotia to document life in one of the last company towns in America through photographs and interviews. Only fragments of her work have been published; only a fragment of it is published here. In it, people of Scotia…
Old business
We’re going to take a quick spin in the Wayback Machine this week, going back in time one year. Spring, 2006. Heady times. If you remember rightly, there was a lot going on back then. What we want to know today is: What ever became of that? A couple of months prior to our target…
OSF Review
North Coast stages were relatively quiet in recent weeks (which is about to change – see below) so it was a good time to catch the early offerings at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Four of the eventual 11 plays this season are playing now. Two will continue through the summer (Shakespeare’s As You…
Happy at home
Dow’s Prairie artist Susan Fox [with her collie, Niki] has spent just one year in her current garden, but she’s spent most of her life in Humboldt County. (To see her art, check out her show at Miller Farms in April.) Here’s what she has to say about her life as a gardener: What’s the…
Roasting chicken and a Taste
While shopping at Wildberries not long ago, I saw Phil Ricord staring, lost in thought, in the general direction of the deli section, aka Wildplatters Café. If you shop at the store, or listen to the radio or watch TV, I don’t have to explain who Phil is – in short, he owns Wildberries. In…
Too much
Considering the fact that we’re something of a rural backwater, Humboldt County certainly plays host to a lot of music in a wide range of styles. Sometimes there are just way too many choices of where to go and what to do. Check this week’s calendar section for a rundown on this weekend’s classical overload.…
Which vets vend free?
Usually Henry Robertson is busy jar-ring organic olives, but lately he’s been sidetracked by a can of worms. In recent weeks Robertson, a Vietnam veteran and owner of Henry’s Olives in Cutten, has been wrangling with various local government agencies over their non-compliance with state law. The snafu surfaced last month when Robertson, 58, stopped…
Logger Heaven
There it was, corralled behind a thin rope inside a grassy expanse at Redwood Acres: the retired figure-conscious logger’s dreambike. No, nothing noisy or fume-spewing, chrome-boasting or rubber-laying – those kinds of bikes are for sissies. This was a deceptively delicate, spindly blond wood affair, stationary, with the playful look of an old Flexible Flyer©…
