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Author jeff, you opened your recent book with this quote from Rick Perlstein the historian. Crosscutting motives and narratives the complexity that defies storybook simplicity that is usually the way history happens. I think it is the most cogent ive ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself, and its true no historic event happens in vacuum. Its tied to many other things and that is the fascination in research and writing on the narrative nonfiction history. To read a quote from you as well...

Tom Smothers, the counterculture comedian who died at 86, talked making variety shows subversive with pot jokes and politics in this lost interview.

    I  arrive at the SeaShell Motel in Naples around midnight. After an unexpected …

David Platzker on the art of Ed Ruscha

DICKEYVILLE, Wis. — Christine Wagner is often asked the same question.

THE DISTANCE from the Knox-Less service station in Oklahoma City to Bob’s Seaside Service, not so far from the Santa Monica Pier at the terminus of Route 66—both pictured in Ed Ruscha’s 1963 artist’s book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations—was about 1,400 miles. It’s a drive Ruscha has taken many times since he traveled it with Mason Williams in Ruscha’s lowered 1950 four-door Ford, with throaty Smitty Glasspack dual muffler, following their graduation from Oklahoma City’s Classen High...

Ag-West Bio is pleased to announce that the 2018 to 2023 Diverse Field Crops Cluster (DFCC) Research Report is now available.


SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — Ag-West Bio is pleased to announce that the 2018 to 2023 Diverse Field Crops Cluster (DFCC) Research Report is now available. Over…

The Ross Soil and Water Conservation District announces the final days to place an order for the annual fish sale.

The Ross Soil and Water Conservation District announces the final days to place an order for the annual fish sale.