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The 2021 Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival will be held on October 23 at 3:30 p.m.

The Beautiful Wife and I are enjoying the last days of spring in Midway, Utah. Midway’s a mountain hamlet settled by her Swiss ancestors.

Some time ago, I told my friend Dave Bartholomew I was going to Midway. Dave, retired from the U.S. Marine Corps, was astonished. “Why are you going there?”

Turning an archaeological practice on its head In a new book, Megan Kassabaum challenges the field to take a forward-looking approach, rather than one that looks backward. She does this through the study of a Native American architectural feature called platform mounds. Archaeologists often spend a career studying a single site, region, or time period, building on the field’s previous research and interpretations. But some, like Penn’s Megan Kassabaum, take a wi...

Laguna Beach Local News Stroke Awareness Month It’s the saddest thing when people you know are incapacitated by stroke. Because May is National Stroke Awareness Month and a Laguna neighbor suffered a recent stroke, this column is dedicated to helping you know how to best protect yourself and loved ones. A stroke happens when a cerebral blood vessel is blocked (termed ischemic, 87% of strokes) or ruptures (called hemorrhagic, 13% of strokes) causing brain cell damage. It’s a big problem: wi...

Have you heard a World War II saying, “there are no atheists in foxholes”? We relax when the good times roll, but in hard times people turn to religion.

Cincinnati Magazine Illustration by Lars Leetaru Self-care always seemed self-evident to me. Take care of yourself, eat right, sleep enough, and stay active in some way. Then came a wave of “as seen on TV” products offering self-care in a bottle, a shoe, or a scent, followed by experiences like beach vacations and spa treatments branded as self-care. Just another attempt to take advantage of human insecurities to sell us stuff we don’t need, right? We’ve seen it before with ...

Laguna Beach Local News The Muses of Arch Beach Ever felt the joy of writing something that transcends your normal stuff? It’s a sweet moment, isn’t it? Writers, caught by the beauty of their words, may credit one of the Greek muses. In Laguna, we have the muses of Arch Beach, which leads to a story from Laguna’s early days. Canyon Acres was homesteaded by Harvey Hemenway who had two sisters, Sylvia and Elizabeth. Elizabeth married a Connecticut boy named Henry Goff whose three brothers, ...

Laguna Beach Local News The Women of Moss Point Did you hear the historic Moss Point home sold the other day? I know it’s an incredible site, but $20 million seems a lot of money for an old house, even in Laguna. Which, of course, leads to a story. Lulu V. Goff, from the Goff family of early coastal homesteaders, was the first owner of the land around Moss Point. She completed a 132-acre homestead in 1891, which, doing the math, means she started her five-year improvement period when she was ...

The Twins MAFS recap 2021: Coco and Sam start off... terribly after Sam says he doesn't want to be an asshole, but she's just not his type.