Book This is the title of a very good book about Mineral King, written by a cabin guy who began working at the pack station at age 12. Last Saturday Kevin Alltucker spoke at the annual Mineral King Preservation Society’s Picnic in the Park. Great storyteller, excellent speaker, knew how to reach the crowd and […]
Another Someone Else’s Book | Visalia Electric Railroad
In 2018, Louise Jackson and I worked together on a second edition of her book, The Visalia Electric Railroad: Stories of the Early Years. We published it with a printer that may or may not still be in business. You can read about it on this old blog post: The Visalia Electric Railroad Book. Very […]
Other People’s Books
Because I have been helping people get their books printed but am not selling them myself, it is good to show people where to buy these books. Therefore, I have a new page on my website listing the books and the links where they are for sale. This is a screenshot of my homepage and […]
Springville’s Hospital: Fighting TB in Tulare County
THE BOOK IS FINISHED! It was a ten-year project, with a giant distraction of a different book getting written and published first—Tales of TB: White Plague of the North, available through BookBaby. Here’s the link: Tales of TB But that was last year. This year, the book is Springville’s Hospital: Fighting TB in Tulare County. […]
Ten Things Learned in August (Plus What I Did on my “Vacation”)
Because we don’t have drawing lessons in July or August, sometimes my students say, “Have a nice vacation!” (One sings to me, “See you, in September. . .”) “Vacation”? Fall down laughing. This is what I did workwise in July and August: 2. The library’s card catalog stopped working online after the last “maintenance” session. […]
A Day with Oil Paint
There really are only so many potential titles to a repetitive blog topic. This could be “A Day at the Easels”, but I chose to paint flat on the table, or holding the canvas in my hand. It could be “A Day with an Audio Book”, but then I’d have to make a book report. […]
Only the Living
Only the Living? What is that? So glad you asked! Only the Living is the title of my most recent book publishing effort*. This is a novel by my dear friend, Louise Jackson, author of many books, our third project together. We began working on this one last summer, and now it is ready for […]
Tales of TB: White Plague of the North
In 2017, I met Bill, who came to me for some illustrations for a book he was writing on the old tuberculosis hospital in Springville, which is in the southern part of Tulare County (above Porterville). This is a topic that really interests me. I’ve been curious about that place since I first saw it […]
Seven New Things Learned in July
2. What in the world? I’ve never heard of this brand of vehicle. (The name sounds like a made up woman’s moniker.) I got closer to look, and the Farmer said, “Better not touch that—it is about $100,000”. FOR A CAR?? WHAT’S IT MADE OUT OF?? And why in the world would someone bring something […]