- Thunder in the Mountains - Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War - Author: Daniel J. Sharfstein
- Vacationland - True Stories from Painful Beaches - Author: John Hodgman
- You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me – A Memoir - Author: Sherman Alexie
- Sailing Around the World - Author: Joshua Slocum
- The Shepherd’s Life - Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape - Author: James Rebanks
- Do No Harm - Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery - Author: Henry Marsh
- Al Franken, Giant of the Senate - Author Al Franken
- Ready Player One - Author: Ernest Cline
- The Heart of Everything That Is - The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend - Author: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
- The True Flag - Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire - Author: Stephen Kinzer
- Founding Brothers - The Revolutionary Generation - Author: Joseph J. Ellis
- The Journey of Crazy Horse - A Lakota History - Author: Joseph M. Marshall III
- Heart of Darkness - Author: Kenneth Branagh
- Brave Companions - Portraits in History - Author: David McCullough
- Year Zero - Author: Rob Reid
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Author: Junot Diaz
- Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years and The War Years - Author: Carl Sandburg
- Astoria - John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival - Author: Peter Stark
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Author: Jack Weatherford
- Trevor Noah – Born A Crime - Author: Trevor Noah
- Born to Run - Author: Bruce Springstein
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Book Reading List - 2017
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Climate Change Is Real - Haiku
Labels:
Climate Change,
Environment,
Haiku,
Poem,
Wildfires
Location:
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Thanksgiving Left-Over Make Over - Haiku
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Road Trip - Kam Wah Chung National Historic Landmark
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If you haven’t seen this place, you need to go. Originally a Chinese medical clinic, general store, community center and residence, Kam Wah Chung gives you an incomparable glimpse into the past. This remarkable site, a National Historic Landmark, is located in the town of John Day, and includes a museum and a separate interpretive center. The museum was built in the 1870s, possibly as a trading post. This tiny, unassuming building became home to two Chinese immigrants, Ing “Doc” Hay and Lung On. Both became locally famous: Lung On as a general store proprietor and businessman, and “Doc” Hay as a practitioner of herbal medicine. For 50-some years, the building was a social, medical and religious center for the Oregon’s Chinese community. (Source: Oregon State Parks: Kam Wah Chung website)
Kam Wah Chung National Historic Landmark |
Location:
John Day, OR 97845, USA
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Hike - Catherine Creek, Columbia River Gorge, Washington
Looking south towards Columbia River Gorge and Mt Hood |
Abandoned cattle corrals |
Columbia River Gorge & Mt Hood |
Catherine Creek Arch |
Chocolate lily (Fritillaria affinis) |
Delphinium (Delphinium nuttallii) |
Lomatium (Lomatium sp) |
Large flowered triteleia (Triteleia grandiflora) |
Labels:
Columbia River,
Environment,
Hiking,
Nature,
PNW,
Washington,
wildflowers
Location:
Catherine Creek, Washington, USA
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Sunday, January 1, 2017
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