Published: December, 2003 Quiet had sunk in through the night. Sawdust stilled, power saws turned off, old fashioned wooden sliding doors closed to the public, we arrived one by one for the 9:00a.m. class held at the Mariner Museum Boatshop. A class on rigging and sailing old fashioned downeast wooden sailboats. Welcome, my name is […]
Published: May, 2003 As we live in an age of instant access to nearly everything, it is almost unbelievable that since the discovery of chocolate in Mexico in 1519 by Cortez more than 200 years would pass before the first chocolate processing factory would be in operation in England. You can begin to feel good […]
By Deb Self Published: June, 2014 In the late 1980s, San Francisco Bay’s health was in serious decline. Environmental laws were in place to protect the Bay from pollution, but they were not being enforced. Media reports warned that the Bay might even be dying. In the face of these threats, Dr. […]
