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Ghost Herd of the Sespe
FEATURE | By Chuck Graham Ghost Herd Returns: Once Feared Vanished, Sespe Bighorns Thriving A shard of crumbling shale skittered down the cliff, drawing my gaze upward into the blue skies above the rugged Sespe Wilderness, part of the Los Padres National Forest. A majestic desert bighorn ram picked its way toward me with nimble grace, making me forget I was clinging to a precarious three-foot-wide ledge. Its steady gaze held mine, bold and unflinching, as it approached to within 25 feet. But hunger called [...]
Children of the Sun in the Valley of the Moon
By Mark Lewis In his book “Children of the Sun,” Gordon Kennedy traces the hippies of the ‘60s back to a similar youth movement in 19th-century Germany. He asserts that a key figure linking these two countercultures was the frequent Ojai visitor, Gypsy Boots. Nature Boys, including Eden Ahbez and Gypsy Boots ONE DAY EARLY in 1983, Gordon Kennedy was sitting in his Meiners Oaks farmhouse, flipping through a scrapbook he recently had inherited from his late father, when two vintage [...]
KINSEY & ME A Short Short Story By Ilona Saari Libbey Park I relate to Kinsey Millhone. I power walk to burn off the Cheez-Its I eat late at night while watching the remodeling of homes on HGTV I would love to own... Kinsey jogs to burn off her Big Macs. It doesn’t matter that Kinsey’s a fictional detective who solves mysteries and I’m a real person who reads and writes them, we both love junk food and we both get [...]
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Ojai’s Designing Women
Janelle at work With architectural antecedents including Mead & Requa, Greene & Greene, Wallace Neff, George Washington Smith and Richard Neutra, Ojai has long been a laboratory in the art of living. The spirit of openness and tolerance included black and female trailblazers Paul Revere Williams’ and Julia Morgan’s earliest commissions. FEATURE | By Bret Bradigan Ojai's Designing Women After years of working amid Palm Springs’ Mid-Century Modern masterpieces, the variety and diversity of Ojai’s styles enchanted Janelle Kandziora of Janelle’s Interiors. Her [...]
Going ‘Public’
FEATURE | By Ilona Saari Going 'Public' When I was five my best friend received her First Holy Communion. Afterward she asked me what religion I was. She went to Catholic school and was a Catholic. Since I went to public school, I told her I was a "Public." It wasn't until I was six that I learned my family was Lutheran. That the church we went to was Redeemer Lutheran.It wasn't until I was six that I learned my family was Lutheran. That the [...]
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