A recent walk past Eureka’s Sequoia Park entrance gate and a right turn on the path going behind the zoo revealed what at first looked like Ewoks at work high up in the redwoods. But instead of seeing the fictional species of small mammal bipeds from Endor at work building arboreal huts (see the 1983 […]
Mark Larson
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A Walk Around the County
Sheltering in place since March 11 has been a challenge for my wife, Sydney, and me. We’re both in “at risk” categories due to age and we greatly miss our daily face-to-face yoga classes, the gym and many other “normal” activities as we hunker down at home with only a once-a-week trip to the North […]
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In the Wind on Humboldt Bay
What do you do for fun outside in this era of physical distancing when the wind is blasting? For 77-year-old Peter Portugal and his 40-year-old son Bohdi, the best answer is to don wet suits and go windsurfing in Humboldt Bay. Bohdi lives in Nicaragua eight months out of the year teaching windsurfing to tourists […]
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Photos: Windsurfing Humboldt Bay
What do you do for fun outside in this era of physical distancing when the wind is blasting? For 77-year-old Peter Portugal and his 40-year-old son Bodhi, the best answer is to don wet suits and go windsurfing in Humboldt Bay. (See the slideshow below.) Bodhi lives in Nicaragua eight months out of the year teaching windsurfing […]
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Skin Deep: Photos from Inked Hearts
The 11th annual Inked Hearts Tattoo Expo wrapped up four days of tattooing last Thursday-Sunday in the Sapphire Palace and Kinetik Lounge at Blue Lake Casino and Hotel. Organizers Ted and Amy Marks, owners of the local Nor Cal Tattoo shop, brought in more than 30 local and visiting artists for on-the-spot “ink” opportunities for […]
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Swing Time Travel: Photos and Video from the Taiko Swingposium
Last weekend, the San Jose Taiko Swingposium Immersive Theater Experience’s On the Road show transformed the Bayside Community Hall into a World War II-era dance hall in a Japanese-American incarceration camp. While under armed guard and having lost their homes, possessions and rights as Americans, those in the camps played music and held dances like these […]
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Running Wild: Photos from the Clam Beach Run
The weather gods delivered a calm, dry Saturday morning for around 700 participants in the 55th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Honoring Ford Hess. The race and fun run featured 5 3/4-mile and 8 3/4-mile options starting north of Trinidad — the “fun” for the longer races includes a wet crossing of Little River […]
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Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.: Photos
A large crowd of all ages gathered in the Adorni Center for a “Celebration of Service in our Community” at the Eureka NAACP’s Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event was co-sponsored by the City of Eureka. Sharrone Blanck and Lorna Bryant emceed the event, with Paula Jones, […]
