Word: mendocino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Link with the Past. Boonville is the Cannery Row of the '60s, a case study of isolated humanity intertwined with the land and the elements. It lies 100 miles north of San Francisco at the southern end of Mendocino County's Anderson Valley, a corridor 30 miles long that takes the Navarro River northwest to the Pacific. The southern half looks like Scotland: steep hills, lush fields dotted with sheep and shacks with wood smoke coming out of the chimneys. The valley is beautiful and silent. Two thousand people in maybe 150 square miles. Having...
Died. Eleanor Philby, 55, ex-wife or Soviet counterspy Kim Philby, who followed her husband to Moscow after he defected from Great Britain in 1963, then came in from the cold after their separation two years later to write a treacly autobiography, The Spy I Loved; of cancer; in Mendocino, Calif...
Died. Hugo Benioff, 68, foremost U.S. seismologist who turned the art of predicting earthquakes into a science; of a heart attack; in Mendocino, Calif. After charting geological faults along the U.S. West Coast, Benioff warned in 1949 that the forces that caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were building toward further upheavals, a prediction borne out by the California earthquakes of 1950 and 1952. His variable-reluctance seismograph, which records tiny changes in a magnetic field, after 30 years is still standard around the world...
...handouts from nearby restaurants, butcher shops and groceries, rumble around in a rainbow-painted truck dispensing stew and sympathy. "The whole idea is love," explains Digger Leonard Sussman, 23, who recently quit an insurance job in New Jersey to join the love-Haight mission. "We have a farm in Mendocino given to us by a friend where we'll grow food," he explains, "and other Diggers will go to Chile or Mexico to grow marijuana in the backyard...