By BILL DUNCANThe Elderstatesman
I have never missed a deadline in my 60 odd years as a journalist, but there is always a first time. The News-Review features editor, Craig Reed, asked me to join readers and write 100 words about the wonders of the 100 valleys of the Umpqua for an upcoming edition. The deadline was [...]
Grandpa’s Journey: Lessons from the kitchen in the art of living well By A. G. D’Agnese Creativespace.com Paperback $17.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
A book titled, “Grandpa’s Journey,” sounds like a grandpa’s memoirs, but this book isn’t written by a grandpa and it isn’t a memoir. The strange subtitle about “lessons [...]
The Lives of the Trees An uncommon history By Diana Wells Illustrated by Heather Lovett Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardback $19.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Diana Wells is fascinated with the things of the natural world. She has already authored two previous books in that vein, “100 Flowers and How [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe Elder Statesman
If you are reading this column – the first one I have written in 2010 – you probably have no idea how far newspapers have come in my 60 years in the profession. The craft in which I began is light years different from the way a newspaper is printed today.
When I began [...]
Springer’s Quest Life of a Pacific Chinook Salmon By Nina Foran Gee Illustrated by Kim and Philippe Villard Naturegraph Publishers, Inc. Paperback $12.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
This book really began in Trinity County California in the 1980s when Nina Foran Gee was a school teacher and her classroom became [...]
