The Church of the Open Road Press

Narratives about motorcycling on Northern California's back roads; Reflections on the history and geography of the North State; Memoirs and early recollections of youthful visits to towns and forests and mountaintops. Also middle-of-the-road takes on current issues in politics and education. Middle of the road? Isn't that dangerous?

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

AMERICAN CULTURAL TRAGEDY: THE DECLINE OF MUSIC IN SCHOOLS

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Item: Line 49 - Band/Music - Eliminate or support by parent donation only [School District Trustee Minutes] Item: ......
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

BARNS

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Mill  Creek, (Tehema Co.) CA About fifty years ago , the family was driving from somewhere to somewhere else, and Mom got a ha...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

ELECTION WITH NO PUBLIC DEBATE: WHO LOSES?

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In 1960 , Richard Nixon and Jack Kennedy sat face-to-face for the first televised presidential debate.  Nixon was said to look n...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

THE BIKE SHOP IN THE SHOPPING MALL: BULLY OF A BUSINESS PLAN!

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I like motorcycles .  My wife likes dresses.  We both like eating out now and then.  Especially Italian.  And ever since our trip t...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

UNSUNG LEVEE RIDE – SACRAMENTO’S “GARDEN HIGHWAY”

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FLYING IN TO SACRAMENTO International one sails low over it. Crossing over to the west side on I-5 or I-80, one glimpses it and wonders, ...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

ESSAY ON THAT WHICH IS NOT A LADDER

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THAT WHICH SEPARATES MAN FROM THE LESSER FORMS is his ability to take common items in his environment and creatively utilize them as tools. ...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

FOLLOW-UPS, UPDATES AND CORRECTIONS V

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Navigating the Church of the Open Road Blog-site PICTURE/POST CROSS-REFERENCE! By popular demand (well, actually, one reader asked if th...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

A GRAND CANYON PHOTO JOURNEY

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"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, your ch...
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Maps. Some of the best stories one encounters one encounters by reading a map. A map is the framework - the outline - upon which both history and fantasy are crafted. Just as two people can witness an event and come up with entirely different recollections - each completely true, verifiable and accurate - two people can travel the same mapped route and come up with entirely different stories. But without the map, perhaps they'd have no story to tell. Some of the best anthologies in my library are stuffed in my map case.
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