by William Deverell and Daniel Lynch
As the nation commemorates the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, Californians needn’t feel left out. Yes, other states like Virginia, Pennsylvania and the Carolinas provided the front lines of the greatest rupture in American history –– but California nonetheless played an important role in the run-up to the war.
There is a tendency to assume that California barely existed, and hardly mattered, in antebellum days…
by Betsy McMillan
My relationship to wine falls somewhere between wine snob and wino. No boxed Rosé for me, please, but I have no need for that $150 Burgundy, either. Wine is my simple pleasure, the best way to wind down at the end of a workday or celebrate a special occasion with friends…
by D. J. Waldie
When I was young and my brother was a little older, we would be in bed before dark on mid-summer evenings. (The times were different then.) We would lie in our separate beds, but only an arm’s length apart as shadows lengthened up the far wall of our room, until the dial of the Zenith radio on top of the dresser was the only light left. The Dodgers’ game would be on. Vin Scully was calling the plays…
by James Harms
So we’ll never hear Sinatra
the way our fathers did, who wander the rooms
in their pajamas wondering where in the world,
where? And someone says, No,
no thank you, sick of listening to strangers …
Peter Lovenheim is a journalist based in Rochester, N.Y. His book In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time, won Zócalo’s first annual book prize. Before taking the stage to discuss his book and the importance of neighbors, he sat down for our In The Green Room Q&A…
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