Author: Malcolm Margolin. Berkley, CA: Heyday Books. Copyright 2021. $28.00 If you want a jolt to any complacency and smugness that you may have fallen prey to as a member of the boomer generation, or if you’re a millennial seeking to know the unbridled truth about the volatile European settlement of California, by all means, buy this book. Know that sometimes the truth really doesn’t set you free, but rather binds you to a sense of responsibility and accountability. The truth can be heart wrenching. Yes indeed, sometimes the truth hurts. This work contains a series of essays as they predominantly appeared in the monthly journal News from Native California, which was founded in 1987 by Margolin, David Peri, and Vera Mae Fredrickson. The essays range in date from 1981 to 2019. Margolin founded the non-profit Heyday Books in 1974 and served as its executive director until his retirement in…
With the stroke of a pen, off they can send your sons and your daughters, the little green men. In WWI the little green…
The day after the bombing, I got a call from Rahman whom I hadn’t seen or heard from in years. He had been a…
In the observatory, named after Veer Savarkar, all the scientists were eagerly waiting to receive confirmatory signals. And they did. The existence of the…
There are a lot more press briefings featuring sign language. Many appear to be more animated than I ever recall or at least ever…
Intro The mountains around are dry with the scorching summer sun, however, today is a mesmerizing April evening in this little rustic town on…
Few moments back it was raining for a while. The sun was no more bright, a gentle cool breeze was blowing. The rain had…
She was conceived where she would die. Her father, a dark and handsome traveler passing through town, caught the fancy of the flighty daughter…
It was Mira’s job to polish the marbles, and she had always been bothered by it. She and her father would wait until it…
(for those who paid the price of freedom) In 1776 I fought in a revolution, armed with a single-shot musket, against the world’s greatest…
