I grew up in an Irish Catholic home in San Francisco across the street from Dolores Park, and though it was technically a “broken home” since …
We have just lost one of America’s premiere blues players, John Hammond, Jr. (November 13, 1942 – February 28, 2026), who was an American blue…
One day in July, I was riding in my Uncle Emmett’s boat on the San Joaquin River, reading The Sun Also Rises, when we heard on the radio that …
Ernest Hemingway is buried in Ketchum, Idaho, yet few of my students were aware of Hemingway’s contribution to American literature or his Idah…
There have been many more well-known or famous American hunters than can be discussed in the space allotted to a single column, so I’ll pick a…
“I am not going to apologize for bullfighting.”
In Pamplona every July 6, revelers celebrate the San Fermin Festival, or running of the bulls, through the narrow flagged streets of Pamplona.…
POCATELLO — A chance meeting with Ernest Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary Welsh, in a small town on the shores of Lake Superior back in 1959 has …
