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Traveling With Living Gold Press and Adventuresome Women
"A classic tale of two women school teachers in the early days of the rough and remote Klamath River country of northwestern California. Hired by the Indian Service to teach for the Karuk tribe in 1908, on arrival they found themselves to be the only white women in sixty miles." more »
CultureWatch: Talking About Detective Fiction and The Museum of Innocence
This section covers everything from technical developments; to scientific advances like DNA which provide new investigative methods; to movie and television links; to new access to detective fiction from foreign countries (e.g. the Swedish Wallander series); to new avenues of research (she still prefers to do her own). Anent the latter, that there is a nifty little bibliography and list of suggested reading at the end of the book. more »
Elvis 1956, as photographed by Alfred Wertheimer
The year that would have been his 75th, is now being noted and celebrated by Elvis fans. Fortunately, there are a selection of photographs by Alfred Wertheimer that are available for viewing for those who cannot afford to buy the book nor travel to the exhibitions. more »
Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate Papers at the Ransom Center
'Deep Throat' (Mark Felt, Associate Director of the FBI), includes the sentence, "believes that someone will eventually flush out this story and it could to [be?] the one that sends the administration over the wall." more »






