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Watch for the ending…
A few screen captures from Paramount Pictures 1949 production of – “Samson and Delilah” Another cinematic spectacle produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Filming locations included – the Alabama Hills (Samson & Delilah riding in their chariot – but probably their doubles), a scene where the Alabama Hills were pasted in as a backdrop…
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Saboteur – circa -1940’s Inyo Movie
A few screens captured from Universal Pictures’ 1942 production of “Saboteur.” Starring – Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Norman Lloyd, Alma Kruger, Vaughan Glaser, Ian Wolfe, and a host of others. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Filmed in the Alabama Hills, Whitney Portal Road, and Keeler NSP Soda facility. Notice how the distance…
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Reflections on the first of 2023
Like many people, growing up for me was not the American Dream it is supposed to be. And, also like many people, I have had to fight my siblings, in my case two sisters, for memories. They are younger than me and remember almost nothing about our Dad. This holiday weekend started with 60-mile-an-hour winds…
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The Joy Season
Every once in awhile you meet a really good person from the inside out. To me, Earlene Beaver is that type of person, every day she brings a little joy into my life. Earlene sends out photos of Sierra sunsets, little nuggets of joy in our unpredictable lives. Have as good a season as you can.…
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“More in Life Than Being a Passenger”
Amelia Earhart’s and her husband, George Palmer Putnam had a cabin perhaps a few miles west of Lone Pine, beginning in the 1930s. As it is told, the front window framed Mount Whitney. Her marriage was a brief union that was far from traditional, more like a Hollywood business partnership and a modern open marriage:…
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WAR: Hell no, we won’t go (Vietnam chant)
This is from a Russian Acquaintance, who posted this message online to help other Russians who want to flee Putin’s war. This is roughly translated to English.The original message in Russian appears below. At the competition for running plans, my plan won the main prize: it turned out to be the fastest, cheapest, most comfortable…
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Believe it or Not…
In 2000 after the death of Albert Szukalski, the Belgian artist who created the site’s first sculptures in 1984 near the abandoned railway station in Rhyolite. The sculpture, The Last Supper, consists of ghostly life-sized forms arranged as in the painting The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Szukalski molded his shapes by draping plaster-soaked…
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Happy Birthday Antiquities Act
This year our nation observed the 116th anniversary of the Antiquities Act, and there has never been a more important time to celebrate this historic preservation policy and support its current use. When Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law in 1906, he granted the executive branch the authority to set aside for protection…
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Bobbsey Twins: 1904-1979
Have you ever heard of the Bobbsey Twins? Let’s talk about 72 books that were published in 1904 and the last in 1979. They were the principal characters of what was, for 75 years, one of the longest-running series of American children’s novels, written under one continuing pseudonym. Actually, many writers wrote books and always…
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