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California Sun readers share feedback on the newsletter
On Nov. 18, I sent a subset of California Sun readers a short survey seeking feedback on the newsletter. Nearly 1,700 people responded. Here is a summary of what they had to say, along with a few comments from me in italics. Asked to select favorite topic areas from a list, respondents gave the highest…
Photos: Rare September snow dusts June Lake in Eastern Sierra
Highway 1 used to be a wooden boardwalk for cars
Swooning over San Francisco’s Tetris house
The strange boundary line that divides California in two
The little-known third redwood
The daredevil Wesley May performed the first aerial refueling over Long Beach in 1921. Another stunt killed him.
An Indian warrior’s legendary fight for the Stanislaus River
Sacramento once had one of the nation’s most vibrant Japantowns
A gold rush, a wave of Chinese immigration, and an herb shop: the story of Fiddletown
The Merry Tramps of Oakland: California’s original glampers
George Freeth, the man who brought surfing to Venice
22 photos of midcentury San Francisco in vivid color
Six days and 665 miles: Louis Remme’s amazing bank run in 1855
How ‘something glistening in the grass’ created the city of Yreka
‘A grand woman fallen on difficult times’: the Redman Hirahara Farmstead
The Church of One Tree, and the tale of California’s clear-cutting
