Gene Paleno
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LC history: World War I Part 5
OPINION- In June of 1911, six short years before these sixteen and seventeen-year-old young men would be in the trenches of France, their happy graduation from the Clear Lake Union High School, cel… → Read More
Lake County History: World War I part 4
OPINION- When the war was over and the boys came home to Lake County, they brought something with them; Flying. A reprint from the 18 June 18 1950 Santa Rosa democrat was an article by Tee McManama… → Read More
Lake County history: World War I part 3
John Masefield, the writer, wrote about the scenes he witnessed on the Western Front → Read More
LC History: World War I part 2
During the early years, before war was declared by America, and the United States had not yet read of the endless young men that were dying in the muddy trenches of France, the newspapers in Lake C… → Read More
LC history: World War I Part 1
In 1917 Lakeport Railroad news was dead and buried. Lake County citizens had much bigger fish to fry. America was at war. → Read More
Sho-Yo-Do Casino Episode Five
“They all got up and followed the Chief around the corner past the Gift Shop to the Security Office.” → Read More
Lake County History: Phantom Raidroad Part 5
LATE NOVEMBER 1915: Another Stockholder’s meeting was held (One inch column). If Hammand the Clear Lake Railroad were not already suffering the tortures of the damned, a new railroad idea reared it… → Read More
Sho-Yo-Do Casino episode 4
A minute later one of Chief Goldfeather’s female assistants came to the Chief’s table from the office next to the Gift Shop. ‘Here it is, Chiefie,’ she smiled, leaning closer than I thought necessa… → Read More
LC History: Phantom Railroad Part 4
The dearth of news was papered over with one last short comment, ‘This reticence by the company is a sign of wisdom.’ → Read More
LC History: Sho-Yo-Do Casino Episode 3
Henry said to me, “I guess the Chief still didn’t understand what the little city fella was talking about. I didn’t either, for that matter. The Chief said, ‘How the hell is it that these birds don… → Read More
LC History: Phantom Rairoald part 3
17 AUGUST 1911: The next meeting was set. After four months with nothing done except a part of the survey, stockholders and citizens were beginning to wonder, ‘Would we ever have a railroad?’ The d… → Read More
Sho-Yo-Do Casino Episode Two
“The main room just outside the restaurant was filled with gamblers that night. The Chief looked up and caught sight of the person he was looking for and he called out, ’Charley, come over here a m… → Read More
LC History: Phantom Railroad
The news article went on with details and a money reminder. → Read More
History: Phantom Railroad
A Wonderful Idea Along with the Suffragettes and anti-Salooners, there were other people on the move. On a fine spring morning in May of 1911, the people of Lake County gathered at Somerset Hall in… → Read More
Suffer the ladies part 1
In 1901, Carrie Nation led the fight for woman’s Suffrage by chopping up saloons in Kansas in 1901. Leading hundreds of ladies in her ‘Home Defense’ Army, she rollicked and rolled across the state … → Read More
History: Killing Pomos Part 2
Why, they asked? Where had the Grebes gone? When the fatty tissues of the bird were examined the concentration of DDD was nowhere near the original small amount. Instead it was three thousand perce… → Read More
Boo-Boo is learning from to be caring and thoughtful.
In this time of COVID-19 any good example of caring and thoughtfulness needs to be told far and wide. My good neighbor, Claudine Pedroncelli, has adopted a small black bright-eyed kitten named Boo-… → Read More
Killing Pomos part 1
There is no statute of limitations for the crime of genocide. It is the same as for murder. When it happens, amends should be made for that crime just as it is for murder. → Read More
History: Sheriff Kemp murder
The party set off in that direction. Halfway across the plowed field something was found that confirmed their belief the tracks were those of the robbers. → Read More
The first time I heard Cleo giggle, I could not believe I heard right
The first time I heard Cleo giggle I couldn’t believe I heard right. A cat giggle? Impossible. Yet, as In listened to the sound she made when we played the Blanket Game, I realized it could only be… → Read More