Author Archives: Jack Elliott

Beach Boulder

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Fishing’s Good on Bill’s Barge

An advertisement from the Carpinteria Herald in 1927.

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Halibut

I had been throwing my line for sometime on the rising tide at a favorite zone when a guy trudged down the beach and set up just down from me. The interloper effectively reduced my fishing grounds by half, as … Continue reading

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Cefalu, Sicily, Italy

A view of Cefalu from this morning relayed back to Headquarters by family living on Sicily. (Map and History of Cefalu)

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Peculiar to the Pattern

“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1839) The conformity of it all is satisfying and comforting, but something is lost. It’s group think manifest in cookie cutter conformity … Continue reading

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