3 Nov 2026
Mementos of a Mapmaker
Legendary Cartographer Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr., mapped the geology of more than a quarter of California – over 40,000 square miles! A descendant of José de la Guerra (famous commandant of the Presidio of Santa Barbara), young Dibblee got an early start appreciating the unique geology of our region. While still in high school, he […]
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When Art Nouveau Came Back
How we dressed in the 1970s was, in many ways, a restatement of the Art Nouveau fashions of the early 1900s. My old Deerfield High friends from the 1970s have sent me photographs of “our gang” – flowing hair, psychedelic shirts, bell bottoms – and we notice the saturated colors and sinuous lines of 1970s […]
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Sea SCAPE: The Art of Being Alive
“He’s all jacked up, ready to go!” Landscape painter Bill Davidson wasn’t describing an overenthusiastic art student. He was facing a Sierra Nevada black bear that had demolished a student’s cooler, scattered her painting equipment and consumed two caffeinated energy drinks. Missing part of a hind paw and having knocked over the student’s tripod, the […]
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New Beginnings
New Beginnings Executive Director Kristine Schwarz doesn’t imagine that her recent difficulties with navigating the health care system come close to those of the nonprofit’s clientele, whose roadblocks to accessing care are just one of the challenges they face. In fact, that her experiences bore an eerie resemblance to one of the New Beginnings’ clients […]
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