Opinion

Fawns Follow-up

Shortly before Memorial Day old adventurer and long-term bride visited daughter and spouse at new home camp with old Idaho Avenue address on Bass Lake--pizza lunch.

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Literary Latelife

Adventures for this old outdoor and corporate adventurer, with no longer reliable feet and legs but still reliable implanted pacemaker, constitute reading, writing and PBS documentaries.

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LET THE YOUNG MINGLE

A glorious Friday night at the Met Museum in New York, the great halls packed with thousands of teenagers for Teen Night, admission is whatever you care to drop in the box, a couple bucks, the change in your pocket, high school kids mobbing the joint, the Picasso lady, the naked Venus, the Rodin folks, a 15th-century lady, the naked man with a sword, all looking down on rivers of youthful energy, and a teen gospel choir sings in one marble stairway and a brass jazz band plays in another and a dance troupe from India performs in a gallery — everywhere you look, something is happening.

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Land clearing & dynamite

The anticipated completion of a power plant and paper mill as well as the arrival of the railroad caused inflation to occur naturally, and land prices escalated as well as initial speculation of the rising value per acre.

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