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?

Thursday, December 19, 2013

FELLING THE YULE TREE

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Holiday Greetings 2013 From the Church of the Open Road A n old gentleman struggled to shuffle up an icy ...
Friday, December 6, 2013

REDISCOVERING THE WEST BRANCH MILL

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A book review and part two of this two-part epic… The West Branch Mill of the Sierra Lumber Company Andy Mark; The History Press; C...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

DISCOVERING THE WEST BRANCH MILL

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…part one of a two-part epic... In the northeast corner of the Chico Quad, Dad had inked a red X.   “Some day, we’re gonna find that p...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

It's Even Worse than It Looks

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It’s Even Worse than in Looks , Thomas E Mann and Norman J Ornstein, Basic Books (2012) $26. News items catch my eye everyday; the word...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

THE ART OF RACING IN NOVEMBER

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  Autumn 1965:   For an eighth grade PE class session, teacher/coach Smitty Jones “planned” an impromptu track meet.   Coach Jones a...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

MORE STUFF BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

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Amador County Wine Country Edition Our California riding season lingers into mid-November.   An hour or so away from the Sacramento...
Monday, November 4, 2013

The Bartender’s Tale

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Ivan Doig.   Riverhead Books: 2012: $16. I’d given up on fiction about a year ago.   Too much of what I’d been readi...

Lion in the White House

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Subtitled “A Life of Theodore Roosevelt” by Aida D. McDonald (Basic Books, 2007, $16.99) In school, we learn of (and...

Beyond Fundamentalism

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Resa Aslan, 176 pgs, Random House, 2010, $16. Subtitled “Confronting religious extremism in the age of globalization.”...

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

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“Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher” by Tim Egan (The Big Burn; Worst Hard Time).   In this biography (Mariner Books, 20...
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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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