While I do ask four times a year for your inquiries, please feel free to ask a question at any time. One of the challenges of doing a daily post is the subject. Your input is important to me. After all, earlier this year in the comment section was a reference to sinker logs, and well I responded, especially since I had a great historic photograph of one. With the approaching Labor Day weekend, I hope this small request does not go by the wayside while many are cavorting around over the long holiday weekend.

By the way, for the person who wants to know more about Hall’s Flat, I am working on it.

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There are times, I amazed who contacts me for what. Recently, Recitals Australia contacted me to use a photograph of Hallelujah Junction in a classical music program. Below is composer John Adams interesting tale about how this piece came to be.

Hallelujah Junction (1996) is a small truck stop on Highway 395 in the High Sierras on the California-Nevada border near where I have a small cabin. For years I would pass through in my car, wondering what piece of music might have a title like “Hallelujah Junction.” It was a case of a good title needing a piece, so I obliged by composing this work for two pianos. Continue reading A Hallelujah Moment →

On a quarterly basis, I ask you the reader, if there is something you would like to learn more about or maybe its something you heard, but question its validity. So here is an opportunity to participate. I will do my best to answer any questions. It should be noted, it may take awhile for the answer to appear as a post. The primary reason, many of the daily posts are done nearly a month in advance. So by the time you read this I am already working on posts for the middle of August, or at least I should be. Whatever the case may be, I look forward to hearing from you. Of course, it should be noted that paid subscribers requests receive priority. In addition, you can always send a request at any time.

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In early June, I had an informal meeting with BLM officials to see if they were interested in reviving tours of Smoke Creek and other places that I had been involved with them some twenty years ago. They were quite receptive and we plan to move forward. There is, of coursed, some behind the scenes work that will need to be addressed. So stay tuned.

Quite a few have expressed interest in the Apache tears/black diamond mine, in the Smoke Creek Desert. Whether, I undertake it on my, or with BLM has not been determined. Whatever the case may be, it will not take place until late September or early October when the temperatures are ideal for such an excursion.

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This is one of many fascinating features to be found at BLM’s Fort Sage OHV near Doyle. It is quite possible that we could include this in a forthcoming tour. If you are interested, let me know. For those wondering about Fort Sage, it never existed, more on that later.

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There are a wide variety of outdoor enthusiasts in our neck of the woods. For some, they would identify the site rather easily, and for others will be clueless.

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It is with a great pleasure to announce that a new entrance to the Susanville Cemetery has been installed. For those not aware the original entrance, circa 1916, was destroyed by trees knocked in a windstorm on February 5, 2015. Personally, I want to thank Peter Heimbigner and the crew  of the Lassen County Public Works Department,  Mike Somerville’s Advance Ag Welding Program at Lassen High School and former Lassen County Supervisor Jim Chapman for making the replacement happen.

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