Drop City is a 2003 novel by American author T. Coraghessan Boyle. The novel, set in 1970, describes the social evolution of a group of counter-cultural free spirits, not unlike the inhabitants of the real Drop City community in Colorado, from which the novel apparently takes its name. However, Boyle's fictional group initially live in California and later move to a remote part of Alaska. The novel was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award.
Since her parents' divorce, Dawn lives in Connecticut with her mother, while her brother and father are in California. After a week's vacation in sunny, healthy Southern California, Dawn isn't sure she wants to return to the East Coast. So, she has a big choice in her hands. Stoneybrook or California?!
The Hoopa Project - Bigfoot Encounters in California
David Paulides, a former police investigator, has applied his skills to questioning Bigfoot witnesses. The results he has achieved in gaining access to witnesses and getting detailed information from them is both remarkable and intriguing. A commissioned forensic police artist meet with witnesses and sketch the creatures as they saw them. These drawings provide insights into the creature's nature never realized before.
The latest research from the author of the groundbreaking The Hoopa Project: Bigfoot Encounters in California, named 2008 Bigfoot Book of the Year by Cyptomundo. Taking off where The Hoopa Project stopped, Tribal Bigfoot goes deeper into the connection between the forest giants and native peoples. Includes sightings from the counties in Northern California that have reported the greatest numbers of Bigfoot occurrences, and beyond to Minnesota and Oklahoma.
The Guide to West Coast Cheese: More than 300 Cheeses Handcrafted in California, Oregon, and Washington
A robust sheep’s milk cheese studded with whole peppercorns. A sharp, clothbound Cheddar that pairs perfectly with a nutty brown ale and a dollop of mango chutney. A tangy, nettle-wrapped cheese made in celebration of the cows returning to pasture in early spring. A light and cakey goat cheese with notes of pine nuts and Meyer lemons. These are just a few of the hundreds of delicious cheeses with origins up and down the West Coast that Sasha Davies chronicles in her detailed exploration of this exciting cheese region.
