Every day but Sunday, pickup trucks congregate outside Fieldbrook’s Volunteer Fire Department. Workers hang from the firehouse roof, demolish walls, climb scaffolding and mix concrete. It’s like a barn raising — a testament to what can be accomplished when a community works together. The project has been a long time coming. Firefighter and contractor Gene Callahan […]
Amy Barnes
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Arcata Student Receives Prestigious Invitation to Princeton Symposium
Nicolas Krell, a senior at Arcata’s Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy, was recently invited to be one of just 90 outstanding student artists and scholars from across the country to attend Princeton University’s Creative Arts and Humanities Symposium. The goal of the symposium, which runs September 27-29, is to “reinforce interest in the creative […]
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Remember, Part Two
Some mornings Poppa would skinny dip With his bar of Ivory before he went to work I used to peek through my bedroom curtains to see (you know) then Iʼd get shy and feel guilty for spying on my very own grandfather at seven in the morning. Iʼd chase lightning bugs by myself At night […]
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Remember, Part One
That scrawny bucktoothed Two parted-down-the-middle Braids sprawled in the strung-between Two weeping willows hammock beside the Bug murk- filled concrete bird bath Too skinny girl I used to be. Lying in that slung too low hammock Out in front of Nanaʼs aqua trimmed White brick house in Hickory And the whippoorwills would sing loud […]