The Mendocino Papers eBook Bruce Anderson
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The idea of this book, the first in a series, is to give readers a sense of what vast Mendocino County is like, really like, from its beginnings to now. The contents derive from my readings of the scant formal histories of the county, and from my readings of the slightly more abundant memoirs of early settlers. My experiences are mixed in, and some of the book is autobiographical because you may want to know something about the person telling you these things. My family’s history is intertwined in mostly oblique ways with the county, whose written history commenced with its merciless first settlers, the long, lethal sons of Missouri who rode west from the gold fields to occupy what must have seemed to them an endless, empty Eden of well-watered little valleys. But there had been people in this Eden for 12,000 years. Those people were annhilated before they could teach us what only they knew. The bouncing ball of the narrative you’ll find here moves back and forth across time conveying, I hope, my sense of an accelerating history of often absurd, often bloody events visited upon a uniquely beautiful part of the country.
The Mendocino Papers eBook Bruce Anderson
Bruce Anderson, editor of Mendocino County's well-known weekly newspaper, the Anderson Valley Advertiser, has written a 214 pg narrative chronicling the history of Mendocino County on California's Northcoast. He offers many personal anecdotes from his own life in Mendocino starting around 1970 when he joined many "back to the land" hippies and counterculture types in fleeing the S.F. Bay Area to re-settle on the Northcoast. Anderson also uses narratives from neighbors and acquaintances to paint a picture of life in Mendocino County over the decades.Anderson starts with describing Native American life on the Northcoast and the subsequent enslavement and tragic and brutal eradication of the Indians by the Spaniards and Anglo Americans.
Anderson ran a juvenile delinquent home in the Anderson Valley for years and bought the Advertiser (I believe in the late 70's or early 80's), which has been publishing for several decades.
Anecdotes are included about certain nefarious characters who have passed through Mendocino County over the decades including Charles Manson, Kenneth Parnell, and the Reverend Jim Jones, who established his People's Temple church in Mendocino County in the 1970's for a time before relocating to the Bay Area and Guyana.
Anderson's narrative is engaging. He clearly feels a kinship with the subjects and people and places he describes in this book. If you live in or near Mendocino County or have spent any time there, you may find this narrative to be enjoyable.
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The Mendocino Papers eBook Bruce Anderson Reviews
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"The Mendocino Papers," was funny and engaging. As a person who fits almost every category of person in the book, I could relate. I came to California from Missouri, lived in the Haight during the good days, and migrated to Little River Road when the city began being ugly. Anderson has put together a gritty, funny, and genuine history of a beautiful and magical part of Northern California, where I hope I can someday afford to live again.
Every week, the author goes to press with an array of truthisms, and poetic license. This book shares the same qualities. Even upon reading it a second time. Good read, spell binding in sections, and seemingly true enough to represent the area in which I reside....Mendocino County.
Randy H. Burke, Gualala, CA
Bruce Anderson, editor of Mendocino County's well-known weekly newspaper, the Anderson Valley Advertiser, has written a 214 pg narrative chronicling the history of Mendocino County on California's Northcoast. He offers many personal anecdotes from his own life in Mendocino starting around 1970 when he joined many "back to the land" hippies and counterculture types in fleeing the S.F. Bay Area to re-settle on the Northcoast. Anderson also uses narratives from neighbors and acquaintances to paint a picture of life in Mendocino County over the decades.
Anderson starts with describing Native American life on the Northcoast and the subsequent enslavement and tragic and brutal eradication of the Indians by the Spaniards and Anglo Americans.
Anderson ran a juvenile delinquent home in the Anderson Valley for years and bought the Advertiser (I believe in the late 70's or early 80's), which has been publishing for several decades.
Anecdotes are included about certain nefarious characters who have passed through Mendocino County over the decades including Charles Manson, Kenneth Parnell, and the Reverend Jim Jones, who established his People's Temple church in Mendocino County in the 1970's for a time before relocating to the Bay Area and Guyana.
Anderson's narrative is engaging. He clearly feels a kinship with the subjects and people and places he describes in this book. If you live in or near Mendocino County or have spent any time there, you may find this narrative to be enjoyable.
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