Healdsburg Happenings, Nov. 28
Busy times as the holidays approach: a 5k fun run, a fun play at the Raven, chances to dance or listen to jazz, a classic film and a tree-lighting in the Plaza. All that and more..
The Post
Way back in the pre-fake-news time of 1971, the New York Times began publishing excerpts from the classified “Pentagon Papers,” stolen from the Rand Corporation. The damning revelations about four American Presidents (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson) lying about the real reasons for the Vietnam War rattled President Nixon so much that his Attorney General John Mitchell invoked the Espionage Act and a judge ordered the Times to “cease and desist.”
Don’t Let the Music Stop
The Tuesday Night on the Plaza music series is over for the year, but that doesn’t mean all the guitars and drums have been put away until next May. In fact, September is shaping up to be a pretty busy month for musical diversion—if...
SCREENINGS: Which President will you pick?
Are you still undecided about which of the Presidential candidates you should chose in a couple weeks? Hollywood is intrigued by the power and pageantry of the American Presidency, and has created some memorable characters to occupy movie-set White Houses. I’ve picked seven of the most identifiable of the fictional movie Presidents for you to revisit or perhaps even meet for the first time. Let me know which movie President you would pick to run our country for the next four years.
What’s in the river this year?
I counted about 200 seals hauled out on the beach at Jenner one












