By Odin Rasco The clash of blades, the well-timed parry of a dagger or the thrust of a rapier are scenes so ingrained in history and pop culture that most people recall moments from their […]
Henri rises to the occasion to share bread’s origin and where to find the best locally By Henri Bourride “There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky Growing up, […]
By David A. Kulczyk Mob mentality draws its own verdict, based upon the passions of the moment. When a jury verdict and a judge-mandated sentence conflicts with the desires of an enraged mob, the mob’s […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson It’s hard to believe that it happened in Oroville of all places – that an embodiment of the land’s lost voices, and a final survivor of California’s darkest crimes, appeared in […]
Four Chico State alumni reminisce about the mid-1970s By Ken Magri with Julie Grovhoug, Gail Patrice and Richard Biernacki “Take care of your memories, for you cannot relive them.” –Bob Dylan About 50 years ago […]
Bullies and misfits usually end up getting what’s coming to them, and when it happens, ‘poetic justice’ has certainly prevailed. By David A. Kulczyk By the early 1880s, Chico was a bustling city of dirt […]
A remembrance of what I learned about life by just listening By Ken Magri One winter day in 2011, I walked up to my 98-year-old Uncle Ernie’s apartment door in Carmichael and knocked. “Hey, Ernie, […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson You can glean a lot from a culture by how it remembers its dead. In our corner of California, most ghost stories involve unlucky prospectors, victims of frontier justice and thousands […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson “I’m really interested in the point where you sort of turned to history,” journalist Evan Ratliff asked Erik Larson during a 2015 interview, probing why the two writers no longer shared […]
Mitenbuler’s third nonfiction outing is stellar, bringing an eccentric personality back from the veil By Scott Thomas Anderson It’s getting hard to predict what path Reid Mitenbuler will take his writing down from one tome […]
Can one of California’s oldest movie palaces be restored? By Ken Magri A local group wants to raise $1,000.000 to turn Chico’s historic El Rey Theater, which went up for sale last March, into a […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson Fall is a season for lingering on the past – for heightening our sense of the history all around us. Twenty miles north of Chico, there is place where lasting legacies […]
This story was originally published in the Reno News & Review. Karl Ahlrichs, a descendant of George Donner, connected with his family’s history at age 11, when he read a book about the Donner Party’s […]
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