Mr. Where Am I?
Where am I? Lost again. What is this? Who am I? Random acts of art posted to the Delta News Facebook page. Sketches and occasional paintings
Cyndy Green
March 9, 2022
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Making Something from Nothing
In Historic Locke Occasionally time freezes while the world moves on. What was the past begrudgingly ages into the present while always retaining its deep
Cyndy Green
January 7, 2022
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Towers of Power
This 1,549 feet tall structure drastically improved the reception of the three major television stations in the Sacramento market in 1962. With newer and higher towers
Rich Turner
December 22, 2021
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Paradise Lost
An Indigenous History Timeline for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta For thousands of years, Indigenous people lived in the heartland of California, where the Sacramento Valley
David Stuart
June 25, 2021
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Deep History of the Delta
Clarksburg is a picturesque Delta village on the Sacramento River, about 15 miles downriver (south) from the Sacramento waterfront. It nestles on the west (Yolo
David Stuart
October 24, 2020
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Machines, New Crops, and Immigrants
Stimulate a Culture of Towns The gold fever, which motivated travel to Sacramento and Stockton after 1849, began to wane by 1860 as placer mining
Robert Benedetti
September 10, 2020
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Visionaries and Miners
Come to the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta 1830-1860 Traveling the Delta rivers did, of course, have their dangers. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), writing for the
Robert Benedetti
May 29, 2020
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Isleton Spam Festival
The Meat That Survived a Flood Never. Take. Life. Too. Seriously. Ever. Attracting locals and out-of-towners alike, the Isleton Spam Festival is a quintessential Delta
Cyndy Green
February 21, 2020
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Short Takes
Bob’s Bait Shop, Isleton, CA, 1979 Remember the days before digital imaging took over? Don’t get me wrong, I love digital now because of the
Rich Turner
November 21, 2019
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Short Takes
Pipe Rats Back in the mid-1990’s I was privileged to document the seismic retrofitting of the East Bay Municipal Utility Districts aqueducts that bring water
Rich Turner
October 30, 2019
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