He went to the big armory in the sky a few years ago, but on the evening of June 26, here in Petrolia, I could almost hear the joyful salvos that my neighbor, Curly Wright, half a mile down Conklin Creek Road, would have loosed off into the hillside the other side of the Mattole. […]
Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn coedited the website and newsletter CounterPunch, wrote a column for The Nation, and wrote a syndicated column carried by several newspapers. He lived in Petrolia from 1990 until his death in July 2012.