ALWAYS FREE Lighthouse October 2019 Peddler Ready 2 Go The Guide To Music, Events, Theater, Film, Art, Poetry, and Life on the Mendocino Coast “Jazz In The Autumn” An Intimate Evening of Music at Gualala Arts October 26 Jazz In Te Autumn returns with another solid Larry Vuckovich will join Davis for this perfor- evening of music. On Saturday, October 26, the mance. A consummate pianist, Vuckovich will Elaine Jacob Foyer at Gualala Arts will be flled be as much a foundation as accompaniment to with Blues and Standards. Te music starts at Davis’ voice. Both performers are music masters 6:30pm with Jamie Davis, vocals, Larry Vuckov- who have recently sold out shows at such pres- ich, piano and Jef Chambers, bass. tigious Bay Area venues as Oakland’s Yoshi’s. Jamie Davis, who appeared as a vocalist on Vuckovich will also treat the audience to solo the Grammy-nominated album “All About Tat piano gems from his repertoire of enchanting Basie” brings an amazing talent and absolute au- lyrical piano favorites. thenticity to the music. Davis is one of the few Rounding out the trio is Jef Chambers on bass. jazz bass baritone rich voices performing today. Chambers is San Francisco’s versatile and sought His sound evokes the timeless timbres of historic afer bassist whose biography of collaborations singers such as Billy Eckstine, Joe Williams and reads like a virtual “who’s who” in jazz. the revered entertainer Lou Rawls. A talent familiar with music lovers on the coast, “Jazz In Te Autumn” continues on page 12.

Oct 15 - Jan 15 Halloween Party at Arena Teater Coast Highway Art Collective presents “Two Diverse Artists Together” October 31 • La Gente SF Jim Mielander and Joan Rhine • Opening Reception October 4 Plus Costume Contest & More Te Coast Highway Art Collective in Point of-a-kind or in small editions. Her contempo- Te Coast Highway Art Collective is locat- Tere's an infectious, high energy Hal- Arena is hosting on opening reception on rary jewelry designs are light, comfortable to ed at 284 Main Street, Point Arena, the litle loween Party at Arena Teater on Tursday, Friday, October 4, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm wear and fater the wearer. red building with the big yellow sun, located October 31, and everyone's invited. Tickets for husband and wife artists Jim Mielander Joan, who grew up in New York City, re- next to the Redwood Coast Credit Union. are $15, $10 youth (18 and under) and free and Joan Rhine. Each artist has their unique ceived her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from for children 11 and under. Tickets are avail- style and individual artist pursuits, but this Te Cooper Union and her Master of Fine able at local outlets and at ArenaTeater. show will highlight several pieces they have Arts in painting and printmaking from Prat org. Doors open at 7:30pm, the show starts collaborated on, including handmade paper, Institute. In addition, she studied hand pa- at 8:00pm. Dress up! Costumes are encour- jewelry, collage, sculpture and mixed media. permaking at Dieu Donne Paper Mill in New aged! Prizes for Best Costumes! Jim Meilander works with many diverse ma- York and jewelry with Charlene Modena at terials using a wide range of techniques: hand- San Francisco’s Academy of Art University. papermaking, collage, printmaking, painting, “We are so happy to have the opportunity to drawing, and show our work together,” say the artists. sculpture. His “Although we mostly work separately on Regular hours are Tursday through Sun- abstract imag- our own art and projects, we sometimes ap- day, 11:00am to 5:00pm. Visit the website at ery is a playful propriate each other’s ideas and materials. www.coast-highway-artists.com for informa- personal syn- Because we work in physical proximity, there tion about the collective’s artists, upcoming thesis of real is an unconscious cross-pollination of ideas. events and how to join. and imaginary We also do collaborate from time to time on images. He is an artwork or series. We have in common a What About inspired by love of materials, art processes, experimenta- his natural and tion and abstraction. Tis led us both to use Climate Change? m a n - m a d e hand papermaking as a medium because of its In September, people from all over the Halloween at Arena Teater has become physical sur- malleable, fexible and tactile qualities. Work- world stood up, marched, and talked about a popular tradition featuring a variety of roundings, by ing with handmade paper and playing with the threat of climate change. Te idea that bands with La Gente SF, a San Francisco objects used in work and play, and by pure its tech- in 2019 any politician in the United States based, international recording group led by fantasy. niques is will continue to deny climate change is ab- singer-songwriter Rafael Bustamante Sar- Meilander received his degree in art from a jumping horrent. ria entertaining the crowd. Te group has Ohio University. He setled in San Francisco, of point In this issue of Te Lighthouse Peddler created their own unique blend of World where he established Submarine Paperworks for many of you'll fnd quotes, comments and infor- Music, Cumbia, Reggae, Salsa, Hip-Hop in Hunters Point Naval Shipyard with his our mixed mation about climate change from activ- & Reggaeton. La Gente SF fuses together wife Joan Rhine in 1984. In 2000 they moved media art- rhythms and cultural infuences from all to Gualala. In addition to art-making, Jim has works. We over the Caribbean with their distinct Bay designed and fabricated specialized paper- are the frst Area favor and style to create an infectious, making equipment. person to high energy dance party. Joan Rhine’s creations include abstract wall view each La Gente SF's most recent album “Bor- pieces and sculpture in mixed media, and o t h e r ’ s derless” features special guest Deuce jewelry. Her most recent work is evolving in work and Eclipse of Bang Data and Zion-I. Tey also two separate yet related directions: sculptural respond to just released a new single in 2019 as part mixed media artworks that combine cop- it. Some- ists, scientists and others including Swed- of the UnderCover Presents Tribute to A per wire and handmade paper and her “Joan times we ish high school student and activist Greta Tribe Called Quest. Rhine designs …. Jewelry” collection using actually take input and suggestions under Tunberg. Te band plays an intoxicating cocktail of precious metals, semi-precious stones and consideration, and they broaden our original We can change the trajectory of climate world music, mixing cumbia, reggae, salsa beads. Joan’s expressive jewelry pieces are vision. See if you can tell where we infuenced change. But only if we all pitch in. and hip-hop. Come to party. unique, each one completely handmade one- one another.”

Jazz Haiku for October

“From a tenement,

The blue jazz of a trumpet

Weaving autumn mists.”

by Richard Wright

Pg 2 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Advertisers Index From The Editor's Desk • Plan your very cool Jazz in the Autumn! Te music will be real. . . . October 26. (Cover). • Action Network 11 • KTDE 7 • Boo! Te Halloween Party is at Arena Teater, October 31. (Page 2). • Anchor Bay Store 8 • KZYX 19 • Coast Highway Art Collective has the Jim & Joan Opening Reception. Oct. 5. (Page 2). • Arena Frame 15 • Litle Green Bean 18 • A note about climate change. It is. Changing. You know? (Page 2). • Arena Pharmacy 4 • Lof, Te 6 • National Teatre Live wants to know All About Eve. October 19. (Page 4). • Arena Tech Center 18 • Mar Vista 18 • Discover your checklist for Discover the Coast. (Page 4). • Arena Teater 5, 12 • McCann, Peter P.T. 7 • Te Punk Singer will be here for Music on Film Nite. October 15. (Page 4). • Arf Feed and Pet 13 • Mendonoma Health Alliance 14 • Oz hosts a Farm to Table Fundraiser for Arena Teater. Yum! October 19. (Page 5). • B Bryan Preserve 19 • MTA 17 • 3rd Tursday Poetry brings us Roberta of Ukiah. October 17. (Page 5). • Banana Belt Properties Back Cover • Ofce Source 8 • Some moon shine advice for October 12 & 13. (Page 6). • Bed and Bone 15 • Oz Farm 8 • A Special Remembrance for Ron Sackman. October 5. (Page 6). • Cove Cofee 18 • Phillips Insurance 13 • Daimh. Pronounced Dive. Really. Great Gaelic Music. October 23. (Page 7). • Denise Green 9 • Pier Chowder House 4 • Look out. A Cajun Zydeco Fest is headed our way. October 4. (Page 7). • Dream Catcher Interiors 12 • Point Arena Light Station 17 • Mendonoma Health Alliance hosts a Health Fair. October 16. (Page 7). • Four-Eyed Frog Bookstore 2 • Point Arena Merchants Association 20 • Te Film Club Has an M, a Doc, and a wacky family. October 7, 14, 28. (Page 8). • Garcia River Casino 10 • Point Arena Pizza 2 • Karin Uphof wants to get to the root of the Teasel. Let's go. (Page 9). • Green Room, Te 2 • Redwood Coast Chamber of Com. 8 • Cathy Sue Riehm is talking Transfaunation. See what she's talking about. (Page 9). • Gualala Arts 7 • Rollerville Cafe 3 • Happiness is here! Happiness is here!. Well, a bluebird is anyway. (Page 9). • Gualala Building Supply 13 • Sea Trader, Te 3 • Fused Glass meets Chinese Brushes. Let's go see. October 5. (Page 10). • Gualala Supermarket 6 • Skunk Train 20 • One Red Square is required. Check with PPQG on October 4. (Page 10). • Healing Arts and Massage 7 • Spirit Veterinary Services 9 • A Quicktake on Discover Te Coast. October 19. (Page 10). • Ignacio Health Insurance Front Cover • Village Bootery 11 • Want to see ten operas this year? You can you, know, starting October 12. (Page 11). • Judith Hughes 10 • Wellness On Te Coast 18 • A Mater of Balance is about you. Get help. Starts October 17. (Page 11). • KGUA 17 • Zen House Motorcycles 4 • Just what you needed. A Warning from David Stefen. (Page 12). • Jennifer reviews a real pain of a book. (Page 13). • Need some options for your library? Te Frog has a best sellers list. (Page 13). Our thanks to October contributors Janet Chancellor, Warren Galleti, Rozann Grunig, • I sense some concern on Mitch's part about geting things built. (Page 15). Mitch McFarland, Blake More, Cathy Sue Riehm, Mary Jane Schramm, • Repeat slowly: Su. Do. Ku. Or how about Sue Doh Koo? New puzzle. (Page 15). David Stefen, Karin Uphof, and Jennifer Bort Yacovissi. • Warren Galleti is updating us on NTN. (Page 16). Cover image:Jamie Davis in pereformance. • Happily, Janet Chancellor returns with another short story. (Page 17). • Te new Crossword is here. (Page 18). Read the Peddler Online- • Voter registration continues at Pay n Take. October 5 & 12. (Page19). • MJ Returns with another update on the deep. Some ne interesting swimmers. (Page 19). Its Free & In Full Color! • Manhatan Piano Trio. Here to play. All the way from, well, you know. Oct. 13. (Page 20) • New opening at the Artists Collective in Elk. October 12. (Page 20). www.thelighthousepeddler.com • Time to Get out? Check out the events on our back page.

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Pg 3 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 National Teatre Live from London • October 19 Music on Film Nite at Arena Teater• October 15 "All About Eve" Starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James Te Punk Singer – A Film About Kathleen Hanna Arena Teater's Music on Film Nite house for a dangerous tryst, only to have his Arena Teater presents the National from the Bridge), asks why our fascination presents "Te Punk Singer"'A Film plans interrupted by a strange creature come Teatre Live from London production of with celebrity, youth and identity never About Kathleen Hanna, Tuesday, October up from the lake. And the foreign tones she "All About Eve", Saturday, October 19 at seems to get old. 15, 7:00pm, doors open at 6:30pm. Admis- speaks in may be more seductively deadly 1:00pm. Doors open at 12:30pm. Tickets "Eile" Magazine described Anderson’s sion is $10. than anything Archie was prepared for. are $18, $5 youth (18 and under), and avail- Margo as "a far more tragic fgure than Bete Kathleen Hanna is a New York City-based About the director Noah Weisel: Weisel able online at ArenaTeater.org. Te run Davis was, and she is defnitely channelling artist, best known for her groundbreak- is an escapee from Hollywood, where he time is 120 min- the screen great ing performances as a member of the 90s worked on flms you’ve all seen but which utes, with no inter- at times. Her per- punk band, Bikini Kill, and her multimedia he isn’t supposed to talk about. He has also mission. Te pro- formance is laced group, Le Tigre. Hanna is currently giving made a number of flms he’d be happy to duction features with pathos and lectures and perform- Gillian Anderson resignation. James ing with her new band, (X-Files, NTL's A manages to bal- Te Julie Ruin. Streetcar Named ance Eve’s naivety Lead singer of the Desire) and Lily with her cunning punk band Bikini Kill James (Mamma and ambition, and dance-punk trio Mia!, Here We Go and cuts a striking Le Tigre, Hanna rose Again). fgure as her true to national atention as Te play tells colours begin to the reluctant but never the story of Margo emerge. However, shy voice of the Riot Channing (Anderson), a legend and true for me, Monica Dolan as Margo’s friend and Grrrl movement of the star of the theater. Te spotlight is hers, al- confdante, Karen, should get special men- ’90s. She became one ways has been. But now there’s Eve (James). tion. She gives a powerhouse performance, of the most famously Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. Te and is the glue that really holds everything outspoken feminist icons for a new genera- talk about but which you’ve never seen' golden girl, the girl next door. But you know together here. tion of women and a cultural lightning rod. including a feature-length Georgia noir that all about Eve…don’t you…? "All About Eve" is adapted by Ivo van Her critics wished she would just shut up, no one involved is permited to show you. Lifing the curtain on a world of jealousy Hove from the 1950 Twentieth Century and her fans hoped she never would. So He is no longer an active Private Investi- and ambition, this new production, from Fox flm by Joseph L Mankiewicz and the in 2005, when Hanna stopped shouting, gator and fervently denies creating an un- one of the world’s most innovative theatre play “Te Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr. many wondered why. Trough 20 years of derground flm-making cult that worships directors, Ivo van Hove (NT Live: A View archival footage and interviews with Han- Pixelvision. Most recently, Weisel may or na, as well as musicians like Kim Gordon, may not be pursuing a Cinema MFA at San What To Do During October 19th's “Discover Te Coast" Joan Jet and Carrie Brownstein, "Te Punk Francisco State University. Singer" provides a fascinating overview Music on Film Nite screenings will con- of her infuential career, leading up to the tinue with "Amazing Grace" on November • Walks & Stations Along Te Discovery Trail much-anticipated launch of her new band, 19, featuring Aretha Franklin performing • Spot Coastal Wildlife as Part of the Greater Farallones Te Julie Ruin. gospels at the New Temple Missionary • Test Water Quality with the Stream Team Te screening will be preceded by “Ner- Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972, is,” a 9-minute student flm about a strange and "Monterey Pop," on December 17. Te • Visit the Mendocino College Coastal Field Station Open House creature emerging from a lake, based on series screens a diverse collection of music • Learn About ASink Holes and Sea Caves on a Geology Walk a story by H.P. Lovecraf. Starring locals documentaries from rock and blues to jazz, Lynne Atkins, Mike “Bone Daddy” Tomas punk, hip-hop and more on the third Tues- • Take a Nature Walk With Jeanne Jackson and Bryn Elizan Harris, “Neris,” was flmed day of each month. • Visit the Point Arena Lighthouse, grounds, Gif Store and Museum on location at Stewarts Point. (Above information submited by Arena Teater.) Synopsis: Archie arrives at an old farm-

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Pg 4 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Oz Farm to Table Roberta Werdinger Featured At Tird Tursday Poetry & Jazz Dinner and Silent Auction Te Ukiah Poet Set for October 17 at Arena Market & Cafe A Fundraiser for Arena Teater On Tursday, October 17, at 7:30pm for two of the poems in that collection. Saturday, October 19 Te Tird Tursday Poetry & Jazz Read- During this period, Werdinger began ing Series will feature Ukiah poet Roberta studying Zen Buddhism and the arts of Ja- OZ Farm will host a family-style dinner in Werdinger. Te reading will take place at the pan, which she was drawn to ever since she the barn, October 19, a fundraiser for Arena Arena Market Cafe in Point Arena and will encountered a perfectly made ceramic vase Teater with Oz Farm Chef Chris Berger begin with live improv jazz and an open mic at the Art Institute of Chicago in her child- arenatheater.org presiding, providing a delicious meal of with jazz improv; the reading will conclude hood. Soon she was regularly atending October 2019 farm-fresh food, local wines, and Oz cider. with more live improv jazz. meditation retreats, studying f rst with Bill Oz Farm Te event will start at 4:00pm with a farm A poet, priestess, dancer, editor and essay- Kwong-Roshi at Sonoma Mountain Zen From Field to Table tour, followed by appetizers at 5:00pm, and ist, Roberta Werdinger was born and raised Center. In 1995, afer atending the 50th Fundraiser for Arena Theater dinner will be served at 6:00pm. in suburban Chicago, the middle child of year reunion of the liberation of the camp in Saturday Oct. 19 4 PM Silent auction items include a gif bas- a middle-class Jewish family. Her mother which her father was incarcerated, she went ket from Luscious Lisa, gif certifcates for was a teacher in the Chicago public school to live at Tassajara, a training monastery Coming: Arena Theater Live Sutra Yoga, Outback nursery, Pawpawrazzi system and her father was an electrical en- founded by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Once Hot Buttered Rum pet photography, a hand painted silk scarf gineer. Born in then-Poland (now Ukraine), again, she was in a remote area exploring Saturday Nov. 9, 8 PM by Siobhan Elder, an overnight retreat at Oz her father survived two concentration new territory. She lived at either Tassajara Met Opera Live in HD Farm and more. camps and lost numerous close relatives be- or Green Gulch Farm, two of the three cam- Saturday Oct. 12 9:55 AM Tickets for the dinner/fundraiser are fore immigrating to the U. S. in 1948. Most puses owned by San Francisco Zen Center, Turandot $150 per seat. Checks can be made payable of his remaining family from 1995 to 2006. In Saturday Oct. 26 9:55 AM to “Arena Teater Association” and mailed members went to Israel, that time, she worked Manon to: P.O. Box 611, Point Arena, CA 95468. where she spent her ju- as kitchen manager, ▪▪▪ Reservations can be made (and paid for) by nior year in high school treasurer, and assistant Music on Film Nite phone at (707) 882-3272 to reserve with in a remote location in to her teacher, Tenshin Tuesday Oct. 15 7 PM Visa. Seating is limited to 50 people and Reb Anderson. She was The Punk Singer the Negev desert. ▪▪▪ will sell out quickly: reserve now! Walking the desert's ordained by Tenshin National Theatre Live Chef Christopher Berger comes to the vast and empty spaces Roshi in 2000. from London table as an Italian New Yorker with a farm kindled a love of the In 2006, she lef Zen Saturday Oct. 19 1 PM fresh Californian fusion. He’s been a com- natural world and out- Center to pursue the All About Eve munity member, living at Oz Farm for the of-the-way places; wan- path of writing. Re- ▪▪▪ last four years and has a deep connection dering the Old City of locating to the Ukiah Arena Theater Live to locally grown food. His palete and ex- Jerusalem, crisscrossing between Palestinian Valley area, she lived and worked for three Wednesday Oct. 23 7:30 PM pertise come from a love of freshness, fa- and Jewish neighborhoods, gave her a love years at Mariposa Center in the hills west of Daimh vor, and simplicity. From wood fred pizza of culture and world traditions, especially as town. During this time, she frequently com- ▪▪▪ ovens, to multiple coursed meals for wed- Halloween Show it was exposed and enriched by an "other." muted to San Francisco to study poetry with Thursday Oct. 31 8 PM dings, he is delighted to create not only a She has since, in what could fairly be named legendary Beat poet and feminist icon Diane delicious meal, but an experience, complete La Gente SF a fight from suburbia, sought out either the di Prima. ▪▪▪ great cities of the world'from New Or- From 2009 to 2016, she hosted the radio Arena Theater Film Club leans to New Delhi, Edinburgh to San Fran- show "Maps & Legends" on KZYX, a show Mondays 7 PM cisco, Chicago to Istanbul'or its great wild that delved into rock and roll's rich history Oct. 7 M spaces, with her base always being the hills and amazingly diverse present. She has a Oct. 14 The River & The Wall and valleys of rural Northern California. long-term professional association with Oct. 28 You Can't Take it With You Drawn to interdisciplinary approaches Berkeley-based writer, artist, and activist 214 Main Street Point Arena and seeking to engage body and mind in Kaz Tanahashi, for whom she edits and con- her intellectual pursuits, Werdinger studied ducts research. She has also taught English at at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies Mendocino College and at Dharma Realm at Sonoma State University and earned her Buddhist University. Since 2010, she has (photo by Barbara Prat) B.A. in 1981. She later earned her M.A. in served as a freelance writer and publicist for English and Creative Writing at San Fran- several area nonprofts, including the Grace with atmosphere and connection to who is cisco State University, studying with poets Hudson Museum and the Ukiah Symphony. growing the food we eat. Lately, he’s been Stan Rice and Frances Mayes, among oth- Her writing activities have included essays hosting local Pop-Up dinners at the Point ers. Early poems of hers were published in for the Redwood Coast Review and poetry Arena Farmers Market, serving everything the University's literary magazine, Transfer, for the online journal Leaping Clear. She is from Ramen to Dumplings to Mediterra- as well as in the Bay Area-based journal Yel- currently at work on a memoir, tentatively ti- nean and more! low Silk. tled "Te One Road." It details the migration OZ Farm is located at 41601 Mountain In 1988, upon the death of her partner of of her family across the Atlantic and her own View Road, 4 miles north of Point Arena on ten years, Werdinger relocated to a cabin in migration West, as well as all the migrations- Highway One and then 1.65 miles east on Rancho Navarro, Anderson Valley for a year. -internal and external'that the human race Mountain View Road. Driveway is on the It was her frst time driving dirt roads and is currently undertaking. south side of the road. changing propane botles; in between, she Tird Tursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by Te Support Arena Teater and have an eve- wrote a long cycle of poems, called "Barley." ning with friends and great food. Tird Tursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, She received the Academy of American Po- and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received ets Award at San Francisco State University fom Te James Irvine Foundation.

Pg 5 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Two Evening Tours In October At Point Arena Lighthouse Ron Sackman: Full Moon Full Hunter’s (and Almost Full) Hunter's Moon Night Tour Remembrance & Celebration Saturday, October 12 • Sunday, October 13 Saturday, October 5 Te Point Arena Lighthouse continues According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac Te public is invited to join in the cel- its popular Full Moon Night Tours with two full moon names were used by early Co- ebration of Ron Sackman’s life on Saturday, tours in October. Tey will ofer an Almost lonial Americans who learned the names October 5, 2019 at 5:00pm at the Gualala Full Hunter's Moon Night Tour on Saturday, from the local Native Americans. Indig- Arts Center, Coleman Auditorium. Art was October 12 and a Full Hunter's Moon Night enous people did not record time by us- a major focus in Ron’s life. Some of Sack- Tour on Sunday, October 13. For both tours ing the months of the Julian or Gregorian man’s paintings and ceramics will be on dis- the gates open at 6:30pm, tour starts around calendar. Many tribes kept track of time by play and available October 13 7:00pm. observing the seasons and lunar months, for sale at Gualala Te evenings will feature a special pre- although there was much variability. Tis is Arts from Friday, sentation about the Light Station’s history the month when the leaves are falling and October 4 through and technology, sweet and savory snacks ac- the game is fatened, and the tribes viewed it Monday, October New Moon companied by as the time for 7. champagne or hunting and Although draw- sparkling juice, laying in a store ing and painting capped of by a of provisions landscapes repre- guided “Climb for the long sented the lion’s to the Top” winter ahead. share of his work, tour of the tall- Some Na- people and wildlife provided a sense of est lighthouse tive American scale and interaction with nature. Ron ap- on the West tribes referred proached art as a means of self-expression: October 27 Coast under to October’s each painting told a story. He said that “art the rising full moon as the is a unique form of communication which moon'if the Full Hunter’s goes beyond photographic images, incor- "There is no debate here, just scien- weather co- Moon, as it was porating observation and imagination and tists and non-scientists. And since the operates, of the time to go includes the ancient aspects of ‘storytell- course! An etched Point Arena Lighthouse hunting in preparation for winter. Tis full subject is science, the non-scientists ing’.” souvenir champagne fute is included in Moon is also called the Travel Moon and Over the years Ron studied calligraphy, don’t get a vote." the price of admission for each participant, the Dying Moon. ceramics, architectural design, and sculp- which is $30 per person or $25 per person Please note. “Many of our Full Moon Bill Maher (1956 - ) ture, architectural drawing and landscape for two or more guests. Reservations must Night Tours sell out,” said Mark Hancock, design, and his work refected a strong inter- be made at least three days in advance of the Point Arena Lighthouse Executive Director, est in historical: subjects which were nostal- tour. “so make your reservations early for these gic. His later work consisted of the dramatic While the tours are scheduled to coordi- Hunter's Moon Night Tours!” Te Light- coast of Northern California where he lived nate with the full moon, weather conditions house ofers Full Moon and (almost) Full for the last 10 years of his life. may preclude lunar visibility. Te tours are Moon Night Tours throughout the year, Although art was Ron’s primary focus, conducted regardless of weather conditions, see their website PointArenaLighthouse. music and writing also provided viable ways unless the Lighthouse Staf deems them to com for details. For more information or to convey his interest in the past and pres- potentially cause safety issues for the guests. to make a reservation, call the Lighthouse ent conditions of life on Earth and human In the event the tour is cancelled, guests at 707-882-2809, ext. 1 at least three days interaction between the people and the en- will receive a full refund. Te Lighthouse is prior to date of the tour you wish to atend. vironment at a global level. located at 45500 Lighthouse Road in Point Image by captmas fom Pixabay Arena.

Pg 6 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Dàimh ' Gaelic Super group Cajun Zydeco Fest Returns to Gualala Arts October 4 Gualala Returns to Arena Teater Lloyd Meadows’ Tri-Tip Trio Takes Te Stage in the Redwood Grove Arts October 23 Once again the music of Lloyd Meadows’ vocals and plays rubboard and harmonica, SINCE 1961 Over the past ten years musical groups Tri-Tip Trio will get people on their is a consummate entertainer and rousing 707.884.1138 feet and having a good time. One of the crowd pleaser. His infectious energy GualalaArts.org whose style has been described as Celtic, 46501 Old State Hwy Gaelic and Highland, have traveled from Mendonoma Coast’s favorite events returns infuses audiences wherever he performs. Gualala, CA 95445 Ireland, Scotland, Wales and parts of North Friday, October 4 for a A classically trained singer, New Gualala Arts Exhibit America to fnd an audience hungry for 6:00pm dinner, and 7:30pm Lloyd's soulful, steamy style “One Red Square” their music. One of those groups makes a performance. It’s an evening ranges from rock to blues PPQG Quilt Challenge return visit to the Mendocino Coast this of listenable, danceable, and to R&B, leading to a unique Burnett Gallery & Elaine Jacob Foyer crowd-friendly music. Afer blend of Zydeco. Opening Reception Friday, 10/4 month. Continues through Sunday, 10/27 Gaelic Supergroup Daimh (pronounced all, the Cajun Zydeco Fest Meadows and his Dolphin Gallery Exhibits Dive) will be at Arena Teater in Point in the Redwood Grove is all bandmates consistently Fused Glass • Chinese Brush Painting Arena for an evening of Highland and about fun. pack the house up and down Melissa McCann • Andrea Allen Gaelic music with a contemporary take on Tickets for the 7:30pm the west coast and from Opening Reception Saturday, 10/5 Wednesday, October 23, at 7:30pm. Doors show are $20, $5 more when California to New Orleans Both Continue through Sunday, 11/17 open at 7:00pm. Tickets are $20 at local purchased on the day of the with sizzling roots rhythms. Cajun Zydeco Fest with outlets and ArenaTeater.org. show. Dinner will be served One reviewer added “. . . Lloyd Meadows’ Tri Tip Trio In The Redwood Grove beginning at 6:00pm and is Meadows’ afable frontman Sunday, October 4 available for $30. personality oozes through; 6 pm Dinner • 7:30 pm Show For those planning on he is a natural entertainer. Opening Chamber Music Concert eating before the show there Rollicking stuf with plenty Manhattan Piano Trio will be plenty of Sus’s New Orleans style of second-line beats.” Purchasing dinner to Sunday, October 13 Gumbo, and of course homemade desserts enjoy before the concert allows concert- 4 pm Performance • Coleman Hall Tickets: $25 by local the Soroptimists International. goers to fnd a seat 30 minutes before doors Please note: Season Tickets are still available. Tirsty? You can look for beer and wine at open, which could mean the diference in Receive tickets for 6 Chamber Concerts the no-host bar. having a place to sit for the entire evening! for the price of 5. $125. Lloyd Meadows has played the Arts (But who can ever stay seated when this “Jazz In The Autumn” Jamie Davis Sings Blues & Standards Center several times and the music and band is on the bandstand?) with Larry Vuckovich, piano the fun gets beter and beter each time, Whether you come for the music, or you Jeff Chambers, bass Taking their name from the Scotish with those Cajun boot-stompin’ tunes that come to dance or you come for dinner you at Gualala Arts Gaelic word for kinship, Daimh is a 5-piece bring every last person onto the dance foor know it’s going to be a great evening. Saturday, October 26, 6:30 pm band based in Lochaber in the Highlands at some point. Meadows, who handles 70+ Birthday Celebration and Islands of Scotland; an area as much With Friends and Family Sunday, October 20, 5 pm renowned for its scenic beauty as for its rich Mendonoma Health Alliance Hosts a School Health Fair musical and cultural heritage. Remembrance & Celebration of October 16 at Point Arena High School Gym • All Schools Invited the Life of Ron Sackman, Formed around the turn of the centu- Mendonoma Health Alliance is hosting a ings, Emergency Services and more! Saturday, October 5, 5 pm ry, Dàimh have taken their contemporary School Health Fair on Wednesday, October For more information, contact Heather Purchase Advance Tickets at take of Highland and Gaelic music to over 16, from 8:00am to 12:00pm. Te Health Regelbrugge at (707) 412-3176 or by email BrownPaperTickets 1-800-838-3006 20 countries, seting audiences alight from or in person at Fair will take place at at heather@men- Gualala Arts Center or Dolphin Gallery Moscow to San Francisco. th Point Arena High donomahealth.org. 10 am - 4 pm • Noon - 4 pm weekends With a reputation as giants of the Bag- School Gym. All Good health doesn't pipes and Fiddle, Angus Mackenzie and schools are invited happen by accident. “You say you love your children above Gabe McVarish lead the melodic power- to participate. Infor- Get the information all else and yet you are stealing their house with fellow founder member Ross mation will include you need to live a Martin underpinning the groove on the Fitness Resources, healthier life, and to future in front of their very eyes.”" guitar. Te band are joined by “new guy” Healthy Food Resources, Health Screen- know where to go for health resources. -Greta Thunberg (2003 -) Murdo “Yogi” Cameron on Mandola and Accordion to complete the instrumental line up. Dàimh have always had the renown and notoriety of working with some of the fnest Gaelic singers in Scotland and the current line up only serves to cement that distinc- tion with the addition of the Gaelic frma- ment’s most rapidly rising star, Ellen Mac- Donald on vocals. Recent accolades include last year’s award for the “Best Folk Band in Europe” at the prestigious Folkherbst competition in Germany and most recently winner of “Folk Band of the Year” at the Scotish Traditional Music Awards. Tickets are $20, available at local outlets or online at ArenaTeater.org.

Pg 7 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Murder in Germany, A Border in Transition, and a Classic Romantic Comedy Tree Evenings of Film From Arena Teater Film Club In October Te Arena Teater Film Club has three ti- trenchant social commentary with chilling ter uncharted emotional waters. Te flm is tles this month to touch any and all of our suspense, creating a panorama of private rated PG and has a runtime of 109 minutes. emotions. Tere’s comedy, romance, drama, madness and public hysteria that to this day Having been through the dark streets of and historic American physical and cultural remains the blueprint for the psychological a German city hunting M, and the emotion- imagery, all to entertain and engage. “M”, thriller. “M” is not rated and has a runtime ally-charged yet beautiful scenery of Texas “Te River and Te Wall”, and You Can’t of 110 minutes. Te B&W, German-lan- border country, the Film Club gives us a Take It With You” give us guage flm screens Monday, October 7 wonderfully sof landing with “You Can’t three memorable Mondays at 7:00pm. Take It With You”. Tis 1938 romantic com- in October. One week later on October 14, the In a cinematic world of Film Club’s second October flm takes prety faces, striking phy- the audience to the breathtaking vistas siques and smooth talking of west Texas and the Rio Grande Val- characters, it’s hard to imag- ley. In “Te River and Te Wall”, fve ine the success of a actor friends journey from El Paso to the Gulf who seemed to lack all of of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes, those qualities. And of the and canoes to document the border- actors who emerged from lands and explore the potential impacts flms of the 1930s, few could have predicted of a border wall on the natural environment. edy includes most of director Frank Capra’s that a young man, with bulging eyes, born Director and conservation flmmaker Ben favorite players: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, in Vienna, speaking no English and whose Masters realizes the urgency of document- Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, H. B. height was just 5’ 3” would become a Hol- ing the last remaining wilderness in Texas Warner and Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson. lywood legend. Peter Lorre defed the odds as the threat of new border wall construc- Plus Spring Byington, Mischa Auer and a and built a 30 year flm career working for tion looms ahead. Masters recruits NatGeo 15-year old Ann Miller. and alongside the likes of John Huston, Explorer Filipe DeAndrade, ornithologist Capra’s flm is the Oscar-winning ver- Humphrey Bogart, Jerry Lewis and Alfred Heather Mackey, river guide Austin Alvara- sion of the play about a romance between Hitchcock. His breakthrough role was that members of two very disparate families: of Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s 1931 clas- she’s from an eccentric clan, while he's the sic flm “M”. Te character Beckert was per- gentlemanly son of stufy, snobbish parents. fectly suited to Lorre’s physical appearance, Sweet-natured Alice Sycamore (Arthur) but the (then) 27 year-old actor proved he falls for banker's son Tony Kirby (Stewart). was more than a caricature and his frst role But when she invites her snooty prospective endures to this day. in-laws to dinner to give their blessing to “M” is for ‘murderer’ (in German, the marriage, Alice's peculiar extended fam- mörder) and the leter is not just shorthand ily'including philosophical grandfather for the title but is also a key plot element. Martin Vanderhof (Barrymore), hapless Peter Lorre stars as the serial killer Beckert do, and conservationist Jay Kleberg to join fedgling ballerina sister Essie (Miller) and in Lang’s suspenseful panorama of private him on the two-and-a-half-month journey freworks enthusiast father, Paul (Hinds)' madness and public hysteria. Lang merges down 1,200 miles of the U.S.-Mexico bor- might be too eccentric for the staid Kirbys. der. Capra’s magic works. “You Can’t Take It Tey set out to document the border- With You” screens Monday, October 28 at lands and explore the potential impacts of a 7:00pm. Te runtime is 126 minutes and is wall on the natural environment, but as the not rated. wilderness gives way to the more populated Arena Teater is at 214 Main Street and heavily trafcked Lower Rio Grande (Highway One) in Point Arena. Informa- 39150 Ocean Drive, Suite 2 Valley, they come face-to-face with the hu- tion on these and all of the other flms and man side of the immigration debate and en- events can be found at ArenaTeater.org. in Gualala

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Pg 8 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Words on Wellness • The Root of the Teasel Animal Care & Welfare • "Transfaunation" by Karin Uphoff By Cathy Sue Riehm Te sublime beauty of dried grasses and by driving bacteria from the body out into fowerheads is featured in the autumn light the bloodstream, thus assisting with antibi- Twenty years ago, when I was a Veterinary contents, pulled it out and placed the blob of waning days. Appreciating them helps otic or complementary treatments. Teasel is Technician II in the Large Animal Teaching in a strainer over a bucket to gather the liq- us appreciate and accept the process of our a biennial, so the time to harvest is fall to Hospital at the University of Georgia, one uid material. Amazing! But why? transforming body and the cycle of birth, early spring from those plants starting their of my responsibilities was giving transfau- Rumen fuid is loaded with valuable mi- death and reseeding. One of the plants that second year of growth (i.e. the end of the nation demonstrations to vet students on cro-organisms (that include bacteria, pro- shows up more obviously in its age are dried frst year of growth), At that time, teasel is a their large animal rotation. tozoa and fungi) that act like seed-heads of wild tea- large dense, rosete of Bonnie, the Jersey, was the hard core probiotics. Fel- sel (Dipsacus sylves- basal leaves before the vet school’s fstulated cow, low ruminants (cows, goats, tris). It was introduced stalk is formed. and she was a superstar. So, sheep, alpacas, etc.) with here from Europe/ With winter rains, what exactly is transfauna- indigestion or those who are North Africa where water collects in the tion? not generating their own ru- the elongated thistle- cup-like receptacles Transfaunation is the act men fuid can beneft from a like fowerheads were that form where leaves of transferring the digestive donation. used as a substitute for join the stem. Tese fora of one ruminant into Afer obtaining about half indigo dye and to card small pools serve to another. a bucket of rumen fuid from wool (a cultivated vari- drown sap-sucking As ruminants, cows have Bonnie, an orogastric (stom- ety Dipsacus fullonum insects and this car- four ‘stomachs’- the rumen, ach) tube was passed into was used for the textile industry). In some nivorous quality allows the plant to produce reticulum, omasum and the sick patient, and the ru- areas, teasel has taken over native vegetation more seeds. abomasum. Te largest of men fuid was administered. and considered a pest but like so many inva- Our coast doesn’t feature many teasels them, the rumen, is also Usually, within 24 hours, sive species, it has medicinal qualities. but you can occasionally fnd them in open, called the fermentation vat. their system was kick-started Te root of teasel has been used for thou- grassy areas, especially further inland. Tea- Tis compartment can be into ruminating again. sands of years as medicine to invigorate sels are sometimes grown as ornamentals accessed by creating a fstula, or passage- Transfaunation has been practiced for liver function, strengthen the stomach, heal since the dried heads are used in foristry. way, that allows us to see, and feel, diges- centuries, especially on dairy farms to help fractures, injured tendons, fstulae and con- With multiple fowers on stalks up to six feet tion in action. As ruminants ‘chew their cows who have stopped eating due to heat ditions such as arthritis. Included in salves tall, the seeds they produce are important cud’, they create rumen contractions that or stress. Fistulated cows are not only life- for the treatment of the warts, psoriasis and winter food for some birds like goldfnches. turn fbrous feed into (essentially) ferment- savers, they are research and teaching tools. cancerous sores, teasel was a popular folk Te purple to dark pink or lavender fowers ed silage. Tese animals are considered heroes, and medicine. It is also a homeopathic medi- provide a rich source of pollen and nectar for While Bonnie munched on hay, I’d put are treated as such. cine for skin diseases. Known for centuries bees and buterfies during the spring and on a rectal sleeve, pop the cap on Bonnie’s Bonnie defnitely led a long life of being in Chinese medicine as Xu Duan, a word summer months. fstula and insert my hand. Her rumen spoiled and treated like a queen. would contract and squeeze my forearm meaning “Restore What is Broken”, it has Image by Manfed Richter fom Pixabay Pictured: Cathy Sue Riehm with Bonnie. gained in modern use for treating Lyme as I grabbed a handful of warm wet rumen Karin C. Uphof, is a Master Herbalist, Iridologist, Bodyworker and author of Western Bluebird: "Invite Happiness In!" Botanical Body Care: Herbs and Natural Healing for Your Whole Body. Learn more about Karin at: www.karinuphof.com Te Western Bluebird is a rare sight here the only members of the thrush family that on the coast. So when I see that brilliant regularly use cavities or bird houses for nest- blue, like the early setlers, I associate it with ing. Tey line their nest, a loose network of "I believe climate change is the defning environmental issue love, joy and the renewal of spring. Te blue twigs, with fne grass. of our time. It's hurting our people—around the world—and of their feathers results not from a pigment Tey usually lay four to six light-blue eggs but is iridescent and ofen start the it's time to stand up and say we've had enough. Enough of from the refraction second brood even rising seas and widening deserts that threaten our homes and of light of the struc- while still feeding our crops. Enough of withering drought and blistering heat ture of the feather. It the frst. In spring that mean more malnutrition and disease. Enough of raging changes in intensity and summer they and hue from difer- eat mainly insects, foods, wildfres and storms that threaten people everywhere ent angles. which they dart to with one disaster after another." Bluebirds are seen catch in fight or in felds and open pounce upon on Robert Redford (1936-) woodlands ofen the ground. perched on fences Bluebirds are now and wires. In winter a species of con- they join small focks cern; their decline sometimes mixed with Yellow-rumped War- is associated with the lack of nesting cavities blers feeding on mistletoe and other berries. due to the cuting down of dead trees and By March, they break into pairs. Te court- limbs and competition from European Star- ing male futers in front of the female with lings. So put up a nesting box in your back his wings half-open and tail spread. Ten he yard and you might be blessed with the blue- perches next to the female, preens her feath- bird of happiness. ers and may ofer her food. Bluebirds are Image by M. Maggs fom Pixabay Our thanks to the Mendocino Coast Audubon Society for contributing this article. Each month, the Lighthouse Peddler features another bird regularly seen at or near the Mendonoma Coast. More information is at www.mendocinocoastaudubon.org. • Photo credit: Audubon

Pg 9 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Melissa McCann's Fused Glass & Andrea Allen's Chinese Brush Painting One Red Square • Pacifc Piecemakers Quilt Guild Challenge At Dolphin Gallery • Opening Reception&October 5 Opening Reception at Gualala Arts •October 4 Fused Glass and Chinese Brush Paint- origins in another ancient art form. Most of Each year, Pacifc Piecemakers Quilt continue through Sunday, October 27. ing are central to the new Dolphin Gallery us readily understand that the clay pots of Guild members are “challenged” to create a Quilts to be exhibited include traditional, exhibit, opening with a reception Saturday, today carry connections to a past of a mil- quilt that fts certain parameters. For 2019, modern & art quilts, clothing, and a vari- October 5 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Al- lennium or more, but fused glass, too, dates the theme is “One Red Square”. Although ety of styles & techniques. Te show is not though Melissa McCann and Andrea Allen back to the Romans or Egyptians of 2000 no specifc style nor size was required, each juried nor judged, so it encourages creativ- each explore a diferent medium, they both years ago. Tankfully artists today continue entry was required to ity at all levels. It is have found ways to bring their colorful vi- to explore fused include, at the mini- always a great thrill sions to life. glass bringing us mum, a clearly vis- to see someone new Andrea Allen has become well known on dynamic and vi- ible fnished 1-inch to quilting/art quilts the coast for her explorations into Chinese brant art. square of one of seven show their work Brush Paint- McCann de- primary red fabrics, alongside long-time ing. Each one scribes her me- including two silk quilters. of her pieces dium as warm fabrics, a dupioni and Te members of Pa- shows the con- glass (as op- a charmeuse! Inspira- cifc Piecemakers fdence of her posed to stained tion can come from Quilt Guild work to brush strokes glass' c o l d , absolutely anywhere promote quilting lo- and the careful or blown glass, or anything. Mem- cally and all along the choice of color. hot). Fused glass bers were challenged Sonoma/Mendocino Images some- is heated in a to consider applying coast. Te guild ofers times contain kiln. Shapes of the few simple Chal- monthly educational a dominant glass are cut from high quality handmade lenge rules and to stitch and/or quilt their programs, lectures, and workshops for quil- use of green, sheets of colored glass. Te shapes are then own interpretation in fabric in one, two or ters of all skill levels as well as opportunities lavender and earth as the contrasting col- assembled into a design that is at least two three dimensions. Te Burnet Gallery and for members to give back to their commu- ors of the leaves and fowers against the tree layers thick and then fred in a kiln to about Elaine Jacob Foyer will be covered with nity using those skills. And each year mem- branches. In others, birds may be seen wad- 1500 degrees to fuse it together. At the end quilted objets d’art during October for bers create a quilt to be rafed by Gualala ing elegantly through the marsh, again in of that fring there is a solid sheet. McCann PPQG’s “One Red Square” show. Te open- Arts Center during Art in the Redwoods colors evoking the delicate nature of their also creates sculptural pieces for the table or ing reception is set for Friday, October 4 with the proceeds providing art related feathers. In another work there’s a glass of suitable for wall hanging, all of which have from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Te exhibit will scholarships to local students.

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Pg 10 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Met Opera Live in HD Returns To Arena Teater Mater of Balance New Season of 10 Opera Broadcasts Opens October 12 with Puccini's "Turandot" A New Series From Mendonoma Health Alliance It's that time of year. Yes, fall, winter, etc. the opera’s fnal scene upon Puccini’s sud- set in class and gender issues of the past, the But the time of year I am talking about is the den death was lef to the composer Franco character of Manon herself is timeless, con- Begins October 17 return of the Metropolitan Opera to Arena Alfano. Conductor Arturo Toscanini over- vincing, and familiar. Te opera has been a Many older adults Teater for another season. saw Alfano’s contribution and led the world success ever since its premiere, championed experience concerns about Te Met’s 2019–20 Live in HD season premiere. by a diverse roster of singers who have cher- falling and restrict their will feature ten transmissions, live from the Te large "Turandot" orchestra calls for ished its dramatic opportunities, exalted activities. If that's on your Metropolitan Opera stage, including fve a wide variety of in- mind, or is the concern of a new productions, featuring the world’s lead- struments, including family member, "A Mater ing artists. Here's the 2019–20 at a Glance: alto saxophones, ce- of Balance" is an award- • Turandot, Oct. 12 lesta, bass xylophone, winning program designed • Manon, Oct. 26 harps, and an organ. to manage falls and increase • Madama Buterfy, Nov. 9 Tere are several gen- activity levels. • Akhnaten, Nov. 23 uine Chinese themes MHA is ofering the program in • Wozzeck, Jan. 11 that are integrated Manchester, beginning October 17. Te • Porgy and Bess, Feb. 1 into the score in a program emphasizes practical strategies • Agrippina, Feb. 29 suave and brilliantly to manage falls. You will learn to view falls • Der Fliegende Holländer, Mar. 14 original manner, including the big imperial style, and ravishing music. as controllable, set goals for increasing • Tosca, Apr. 11 anthem in Act II. Te opera also contains Te opera is set in and around Paris, with activity, make changes to reduce fall risks at • Maria Stuarda, May 9 moments of sheer melodic beauty in Puc- familiar landmarks such as the church of St. home, and exercise to increase strength and All ten operas are Saturday performanc- cini’s most lyrical vein, most notably in the Sulpice forming important reference points balance. es, transmited live from the Met stage at tenor’s unforgetable song of triumph, “Nes- in the story. Te opera was originally set in Enrollment is open now. Tursdays, 9:55am. sun dorma,” which opens Act III. the early 18th century, but the Met’s cur- October 17 thru December 12 (No class Tickets are $24 general, $22 senior, and Te opera has a runtime of 182 minutes, rent production places the story in the late Tanksgiving week) Manchester Comm. $18 youth (18 and under) and the popular with 2 intermissions. 19th century, the so-called “Belle Époque” Ctr, 43970 Crispin Road, Manchester, CA season subscriptions are available through Te second opera of the season, Mass- and the time when the opera was writen. 95459. the Arena Teater ofce by calling 707 882- enet's "Manon," will screen on Saturday, Oc- "Manon" has a runtime of 232 minutes, with 3272 or people can download and print a tober 26, at 9:55am, doors open at 9:15am. 2 intermissions. subscription form at www.arenatheater.org. Exhilarating soprano Lisete Oropesa re- com • always free & in color Season subscribers, who also become pa- turns to cinemas as the irresistible title char- . trons may reserve their favorite seat for the acter, the tragic beauty who yearns for the season by calling the Arena Teater ofce. fner things in life. Tenor Michael Fabiano Te Arena Teater snack bar will be open. is the besoted Chevalier des Grieux, whose Te season kicks of on Saturday, October desperate love for Manon proves their un- 12 with Franco Zefrelli’s celebrated pro- doing. Maurizio Benini conducts Mass- duction of Puccini's "Turandot". enet’s sensual score. Trilling dramatic soprano Christine Premiere: Opéra Comique, Paris, 1884. A take on the quintessentially French tale of the beautiful young woman who is inca- pable of forsaking both love and luxury, Massenet’s Manon features one of the truly un-

thelighthousepeddler forgetable, irresistible, and ar- . chetypal female characters in opera. While the story is frmly Goerke brings her ferce portrayal of the www title princess to cinemas on October 12, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium for Franco Zefrelli’s dazzling production of Puccini’s fnal masterpiece. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov is the mysterious prince Calàf, alongside soprano Eleonora Burato as Liù and bass-baritone James Morris as Timur. World premiere: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1926. Puccini’s fnal opera is an epic fairy tale set in a China of legend, loosely based on a play by 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi. Featuring a most unusual score with an astounding and innovative use of chorus and orchestra, it is still recognizably Puccini, bursting with instantly appealing melody. Te unenviable task of completing

Pg 11 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Warming Warning, Revisited by David Stefen Working in the music industry at the dawn the Ross Ice Shelf were to break up it could and by the time the McCain-Lieberman Cli- of the 1980s I remember having mixed emo- lead to an ice surge which would raise sea lev- mate Stewardship Act came up for a vote in tions about the state of popular music. My els by up to twenty feet thus puting two mil- 2005, it was defeated on a bipartisan basis, memory is that the best seller charts were lion people, in London alone, at risk." 60-38. To be fair, the American government beginning to refect two concurrent trends. Produced in Britain by (the now defunct) did not stand alone. We stood boldly with First, rhythm was more than a backbeat Tames Television, it’s highly unlikely you or Kazakhstan as the only two nations to ignore with disco and dance music taking an in- anyone you know ever saw “Warming Warn- the Kyoto Accord and formally deny Climate creasing share of the record-buying audi- ing” in 1981. Change. ence. Nothing necessarily bad about that Most people, understandably, believe "cli- By the time President Obama had secured but, frankly, A&M wasn’t a cuting edge mate change" is a recent topic, perhaps in the a second term, maybe people believed the dance/disco music label. Having ended the lexicon for 10-20 years. And millions contin- United States could now join the world in an ‘70s with breakthroughs by artists like Su- ue to deny climate change is real, with many efort to fght climate change. Te new op- pertramp and Peter Frampton, our artists of those believing it’s a hoax. portunity was for America to be a party to the tended to be more traditional pop/rock. British journalist and writer Leo Hickman 2015 Paris Agreement on climate. President However, in 1979 A&M Records co-founder wrote about the documentary in 2017. In Obama commited the U.S. to joining almost Herb Alpert came roaring back on the charts part he said that the broadcast of “Warming 200 other nations of the world and work with a huge instrumental dance hit record Warning" in 1981 "was among the earliest toward change. Obama's good intentions' titled “Rise”. Te tempo of “Rise” was notice- occasions'possibly the earliest'anywhere again, a treaty that was never ratifed'was a ably slower than disco. Herb told us that he in the world where a major broadcaster aired casualty of the 2016 presidential election. It wanted to "make a dance record, not a disco a documentary dedicated solely to the topic took the current occupant of the Oval Ofce record.” He defned the diference as much of human-caused climate change. Te docu- less than six months to decide that America in BPM'beats per minute'as musicality. mentary was broadcast seven years before Dr. would, indeed, withdraw from the Paris Ac- Te second trend was an infuence of James Hansen's famous ‘it is already happen- cord. And here we are. more synthesized recordings, many com- ing now’ Senate testimony in 1988, nine years Tis past week an estimated 4 million ing from the U.K. Tink groups like Culture before the frst Intergovernmental Panel on people marched to draw atention to climate Club, Tompson Twins or Human League. Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report change as part of the September 2019 Cli- Added to the evolving style of music was a was published, and 25 years before Al Gore's mate Strike. And one can assume the estimate more obvious and open approach to fashion of 4 million is all about big cities and ignores and sexuality. Tere was a more obvious use the dozens, hundreds or even thousands of of makeup'for male and female perform- small towns and rural enclaves where people ers'and a greater fair in wardrobe and hair. also stood for the Climate Strike. 16-year old Along with a renewed infuence in music, Greta Tunberg’s dramatic call to action (and UK/European musicians (many of them the Swedish teen's authentic passion) were with mullet hairstyle in the 1970s) brought virtually impossible to dismiss. Some did, their music and fashion to America in the but Tunberg spoke for many. (Watch her on '80s and, sadly, they brought the mullet too. YouTube). Songwriters have long incorprated social ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ was released. . . ." And on a more personal note, the Climate change into songs including issues of war, A decade afer Dr. Hansen’s warning, and Strike was clearly front and center on Men- civil rights, and feminism. Examples include almost two decades afer “Warming Warn- docino’s south coast. As I walked and talked Pete Seeger ("Where Have All Te Flowers ing” frst aired in the U.K., the topic had with fellow climate-strikers, and with repre- "JAZZ IN THE AUTUMN" Gone"), Bob Dylan (Te Times Tey Are a' reached the American congress. Tat is not sentatives of organizations I was struck by Changing"), Helen Reddy (I Am Woman") to suggest United States senators were sit- how many of my friends and neighbors were cont'd from cover. and Peter Gabriel ("Biko"). And another ting around a campfre, arms locked, sing- on the green. Smiles were everywhere. Tis It includes accompanying legends such as interesting topic was starting to rise to the ing “Kumbaya". Te world was, in fact, talk- wasn’t a group of angry people. But that is trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and pianist Les consciousness of the public through the ing about climate change and discussing the not to say they aren’t serious, concerned or McCann. His taste and timing are impec- news, although not necessarily in song. To need to address the issue. Te 1997 Kyoto commited. Tey are. And we should be too. cable. be honest, the size of the audience actually Protocol'so named for having been adopt- I live on the coast. I see the Pacifc Ocean ev- Tis evening of great music'Jazz in the hearing this news was almost microscopic ed at a conference in Kyoto, Japan'was an Autumn'is presented by the Global Har- compared to the general population. international treaty which extended the 1992 mony Series and Fred Adler. “I am grateful A television listing appeared in Britain’s United Nations Framework Convention on to have the opportunity to present three ITV Network’s evening programming on Climate Change, commiting signatory states captivating and unique world class jazz tal- December 8, 1981. Scheduled to follow to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ents in the intimate seting of the Elaine Ja- “Brideshead Revisited” at 9:00pm and the President Bill Clinton never got the United cob Foyer, for the third annual ‘Jazz in the local news at 10:00pm was a program titled States Senate to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, Autumn’ concert.” Adler added, “I promise “Warming Warning”. 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A Book By Julián Herbert; translated by Christina MacSweeney; reviewed by Jennifer Bort Yacovissi Pick Up One You Missed that particular phrase was defned to include Torreón is a city in the Chihuahuan desert veloping a thorough chronicle of the events “A reader lives a thousand lives African-American and Native-American state of Coahuila, Mexico, but in a fertile re- through extensive research that includes before he dies, said Jojen. The gion called La Laguna for its many lakes. It is boots-on-the-ground investigation. women. man who never reads lives only known, according to author Julián Herbert, Troughout Te House of the Pain of Oth- Tus, the beacon of U.S. opportunity, for three things: sex, wrestling, and soccer. ers, the author proves an engaging, earthy combined with the legal roadblocks of the one." – George R. R. Martin (1948-) Its licentiousness is longstanding, perhaps tour guide (a desert dust cloud is “like fog, Exclusion Act, meant that the coyotes of the a natural product of the area’s foundation in but with the taste of phlegm and sufoca- late 19th century were making their mon- commerce and an initial lack of the restric- tion") whose seeming digressions into both ey by smuggling Chinese across Mexico’s 1. City Mouse, Country Mouse tive presence of the Catholic Church. What- past and present serve to underpin our under- northern border. by Maggie Rudy ever the reasons, from the early 20th centu- standing and illuminate his analysis of events. Te resentment and discrimination faced 2. Embers by Richard Wagamese ry, Torreón’s many brothels were considered He interweaves histories of Torreón with by immigrants who remained in Mexico was 3. qh awala.li Water Running Down Place founded, as is so ofen the case, on econom- the best in northern Mexico. those of wider Mexico and China, as well as by Annete White-Parks And the city’s love of lucha libre is out- the tangled interrelations among Mexico, the ics. Te infux of new labor willing to work 4. Anthology of Intriguing Animals stripped only by its fanatical adoration of United States, Europe, and China. on the cheap drove down wages. Diaz’s pol- by DK fútbol. Te moto stamped on the main For U.S. readers not icy of encouraging immigration was seen as 5. I Wish I Had A Pet entrance of the local soccer stadium, “Te steeped in history lessons favoring foreigners over native Mexicans. by Maggie Rudy House of the Pain of Others” gives this book of the Mexican Revolu- As more and more Chinese put down 6. Where Te Crawdads Sing its title. tion, Herbert ofers mul- roots, started businesses, formed civic asso- by Delia Owens Torreón is known for one other thing: tiple guideposts, including ciations, and even ' as with the Torreón’s 7. Te Sea Ranch the massacre, in May 1911, of 303 Chinese a chapter called “Cast List.” Banco Chino ' founded banks, the Mexi- by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher 8. Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast residents over two days during the Mexican Te chronology in the back cans increasingly viewed these outsiders as by Noah Siegel & Christian Schwarz a threat to their own prosperity and to their Revolution. In searching for an understand- of the book is both helpful 9. Indian Horse ing of this “small genocide,” and, perhaps, a and revealing. communities. by Richard Wagamese level of accountability, Herbert takes us on a Te infux of Chinese In 1888, Wong Foon Check was the frst 10. Te Overstory wide-ranging journey. It is a history lesson, a immigrants into Mexico in the mid- to late- Chinese native to disembark from the train by Richard Powers personal travelogue, a journalist’s notebook, 19th century was spurred by several factors: in Torreón, carrying baskets of goods from 11. Veins of the Ocean and a disquisition on the nature of violence the discovery of gold in California in 1848, his homeland to sell. Twenty-three years by Patricia Engel and the meaning of community. which brought a wave of Chinese immigra- later, when Torreón’s Chinese population 12. A Beter Man Te bits and pieces of the story Herbert tion into the United States; the U.S.’ Chinese numbered about 600, roughly half were by Louise Penny heard over the years, and then a new edition Exclusion Act of 1882, which led to increased slaughtered over the course of two days as 13. Mendonoma Sightings the anti-Diaz Maderistas brought the revo- by Jeanne Jackson & Craig Tooley of Juan Puig’s Between the Perlas and the Chinese immigration into Mexico; and Mex- 14. Te Storied Life of A. J. Fikrey lution to the town. Teir businesses were Nazas Rivers, intrigued him so much that ican President Porfrio Diaz’s encouragement by Gabrielle Zevin he thought he would write a novel about the of immigration as a way of infusing prosper- looted; they were robbed and stripped; in 15. Born A Crime massacre. He then realized, however, that ity into his country. many cases, their bodies were mutilated. by Trevor Noah doing so would betray the victims: Te story (Diaz was hoping to encourage European Tough a commission established soon Te Lighthouse Peddler is pleased to bring our was already fully fctionalized in the national immigration with the intent of whitening the afer the massacre found that the Chinese readers a list of the best-selling books being did not precipitate the violence, as many mindset. gene pool and, thereby, to his thinking, rais- picked up and read by locals and visitors alike. Beyond incorrectly placing Pancho Villa ing his country’s racial and cultural bar.) Mexican townspeople and revolutionaries Our thanks to Four-Eyed Frog Books., a at the scene of the slaughter, the popular Te United States remained the preferred claimed, there was no reckoning. As Herbert conclusion continues to be that the blood- destination of the Chinese, even though dis- writes: Community-owned Bookstore. shed was a result of opportunism and greed crimination was baked into the American “What emerged from the 1911 Torreón Another Book You Might Like* perpetrated primarily by camp-following legal code. Beyond the Exclusion Act, many massacre was not repentance, or even self- *. Te House of the Pain of Others: Chroni- looters, rather than “an act of xenophobia U.S. laws treated the Chinese as the lowest criticism, but a symbolic acceptance of cle of a Small Genocide carried out by the people of La Laguna,” caste in a cohort of oppressed minority and transgression: any further ill-treatment of A Book by Julian Herbert as the director of Torreón’s Museum of the ethnic groups. the Cantonese now had a historical prec- Revolution explains to Herbert. For example, Herbert reminds us that, until edent that not only justifed but excused it, As the author succinctly states, “It is a 1968, there was a California law that forbade since it was less serious than that canonical thesis with which I disagree.” Instead, he Chinese men from marrying “white women” outburst of violence. . . .Tis is how the econ- chooses to dismantle that conclusion by de- ' perhaps the only time in history in which omy of cruelty functions.”

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Pg 14 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Scuttlebutt by Mitch McFarland Wait a second... I have to turn down the to U.S. Census data. 130,000 Californians K housing types and tiny houses, yet this radio. Te jazz station I listen to is playing are living on the street. Te state estimates received exactly one sentence in the 124 Charles Lloyd's classic “Forest Flower”, re- that we need to build 180,000 homes annu- page report.. Apparently the current zon- corded live at the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festi- ally just to keep up with projected popula- ing ordinance doesn't even allow mobile val. It is dominating my concentration, but tion growth and keep prices from escalating homes. Otherwise, suggested changes in it isn't just the power of that recording that further out of control. Unfortunately, for zoning includes such revolutionary ideas as is disrupting my thinking. I have too many the past 10 years, the state has averaged less “During next 8 years explore idea of reduc- things running through my head right now. ing required parking to one parking space.” Writing a monthly column should seem "Why is building in Point Are- Tat will get people lining up to build new prety simple; afer all, its only once a na (and the rest of the state) so houses. month and surely I should be able to come Another idea the draf element suggests up with something informative that inter- costly. Start with the fact that “exploring” is forcing developers of planned ests me enough to be able to write 1000 a Coastal Development Permit developments to include 20% low and words about it. review averages $2290." moderate income units. Tat sounds fne, Te thing is, once a month isn't ofen except that it means the other units have to enough for me to create a rhythm. Some than half of that. In no year during that span be more expensive to make up for develop- "“The climate crisis has already been months columns just write themselves and did California crack the 100,000 barrier. er losses, because you shouldn't think for a solved. We already have all the facts I think how lucky I am to be able to do this. Standing in the way of solving this problem second that the city will make it cheaper to Other months I'm too busy to even think are zoning restrictions, lengthy project de- build these units. Te developer must eat and solutions. All we have to do is to about writing and suddenly Dolly, my pub- sign reviews, the California Environmental the loss or raise the cost of the other units. wake up and change.”." lisher, is emailing me to remind my column Quality Act, parking and other amenity Why is building in Point Arena (and the Greta Thunberg is due. requirements, and multi-hurdled approval rest of the state) so costly. Start with the fact Tis month is diferent . I have too many processes. Funny thing is, these steps were that a Coastal Development Permit review thoughts to be able to pick one. Te world all created to beneft the public, but instead averages $2290. Tis is a function that has is going to hell at an accelerating pace. I can we have made a situation where you must previously been done by the City Council think of ten topics that I see in some form either live in a ideally designed structure or siting as the Planning Commission, so it of crisis, but how to you pick one to priori- live in your car or under a bridge. Tere is had no cost. Now the city has an outside tize? Trump has thrown our country into no middle ground. planner that charges $68/hr to scrutinize the garbage can and even once we get rid Point Arena is being dragged into this is- plans for some detail that will justify their of him, we are a long, long way from even sue by state mandates for a housing element need. geting back to where we were much less to their general plan that includes creating Tough most parcels in the city have a where we need to be. low and median income housing, virtually water line running next to them, a water One of my go-to topics is ofen recycling, none of which exists. In fact the draf hous- connection fee is $20,000. yet the news there is nothing short of de- ing element says 1.1% of local housing is Mendocino County Council of Govern- pressing. Fewer and fewer items we use low income. ments (MCOG) prepares and updates the everyday are recyclable for a rat's nest of I read the 124 page draf housing element. Mendocino County Regional Housing reasons. California just passed what they OK, I skimmed much of it, as will most Needs Plan. Tey state that Point Arena tout as a big new recycling law about single members of the city council. should plan to build 9 low income units use plastics. I read the bill (ugh) and came You can't blame them,though. Much of in the next 8 years. Here comes the next away thinking that all they are doing is tin- it is repetitious with enormous amounts of building boom! kering with the notion of recycling more data reconfgured is various ways. It pro- plastic. Meanwhile the plastics industry vides plenty of ideas to “promote”, but of- has plans to double their annual produc- fers few ways to achieve those goals, much tion in 5 years. How about not making the of which relies on government grants and crap to begin with? Yet there are knuckle- programs. It does provide such illuminat- heads out there saying they can't use a pa- ing information as this: 34% of Point Arena per straw! Well, they didn't have any plastic households have a “burdensome” housing straws when I was growing up and, surprise cost (30% of gross income). Tey go on to surprise, we were able to fnish our milk reveal that these folks “are more likely to be- shakes every time! come homeless or experience overcrowd- How is it that it takes a 16-year-old girl ing.” Wow! to begin to galvanized the world around Te plan states “Tere are approximate- climate change? Te simple thing to do is ly 39 extremely low income households to focus on individuals and so she is being in PA accounting for just over 22 percent exalted for her eforts, yet she replies, “I of households.” Tey then go on to say, don't want your praise, I want your panic!”. “Tere are limited opportunities to address If there ever was a T-shirt, that is it. the housing needs of extremely low‐income Te housing/homeless crisis is beyond households in Point Arena.” Given the ob- ridiculous. We live in a society that cannot stacles to people providing shelter for them- even fgure out how to house its population. selves, this should not be a shock to anyone. 38 percent of California’s 18 to 34-year- Te one serious possibility I see includes olds still live with their parents, according the notion of exploring the idea of Class

Pg 15 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 NTN Projects Begin from Warren Galleti, Point Arena Schools Superintendent A few years ago, we installed NTN (New PAHS Senior Leif Rasmusen Freshmen, Erick Torres, Cesar Coria Technology Network), a personalized system Project: Record a music album with limited Project: Develop a map of Point Arena using of learning opportunities that is designed to resources the Minecraf.edu computer program meet the varying needs of our students. Leif’s band, Gioia Armata, (Armed Joy), Cesar has built small towns with Minecraf, As Point Arena High School senior Leif will record a cassete, using PAHS’s almost- and Erik has built structures with Lego’s. Tis Rasmusen recently told the school’s Site antique four-track tape cassete player and larger project, when fnished, may be upload- Council, “Te NTN project process is start- microphones. Two fellow band members, ed to a public site. “Not the regular way to get ing to make more sense.” August Riehl and Sam Graham, make up the a grade,” said Cesar. Student motivation is strong. Every PAHS NTN project team. Mentor: John Miller, creator of the edu- student has chosen a project. Teir NTN ad- Mentor: Jake Skillman, a studio engineer, cational version of Mindcraf; referred by visors, who are PAHS teachers, check in with who once had his own band PAHS teacher Tomas Cee (their NTN ad- them daily, and most students have a one-on- Need: Microphones visor) one community mentor. We need more vol- Next step: Find a second computer unteers, and EduAct is helping. Freshman, Tule Moreno All projects are in start-up mode right Project: Learn to read notes now. Tis is our frst stab at this. Students are When Tule was nine-years old, she saw the choosing goals, listing information they’ll movie, “If I Stay,” about a teenager named need to learn to complete their projects, mak- Mia who, though her life was flled with trag- ing timelines, doing research, and writing in edy, learns to play the cello. their journals daily. Mentor: Tomas Cee, her NTN advisor, who Semester grades will be based on their jour- is teaching her how to read notes nal entries, weekly progress, mentor evalua- Senior, Ashlynn Okubu Next step: Learn to read notes and play them tion, a writen paper, and an end-of-semester Project: Research herbal preparations for a on her cello presentation. future career in Ayurvedic medicine Our PAHS Art Teacher, Shanna Lee Ashlynn will produce her own herbal teas, Freshmen, Elijah Fisher and Ethan Harbuck ([email protected]), tells me we’re really well tinctures, extracts, and salves, along with Project: Research, design, and build a Zen organized for our frst steps. She believes the researching pathways to becoming an garden “Providing food, shelter, clothing and students are beginning to get the NTN proj- Ayurvedic doctor. Discussion with school administration has education is not enough any more, ect vision. Tey’re seeing their projects as Mentor: Jacqueline Strock, co-owner, Roots begun to possibly build the Zen garden on because all of this would have no student-centered. Many are seeing this class Herbal Apothecary, Point Arena PAHS grounds. period as a time where they can incorporate Next step: Begin production with her mentor Need: Find a mentor meaning in the end, if your children do academics into their personal interests and Next step: Show Mr. Cee (their NTN advi- not have a planet to live on with health goals. sor) their Zen garden design and prosperity.” In the future, I plan to introduce the com- munity to many of these projects. Here are a few for now. Abhijit Naskar (1991 - )

The Company Senior James Ritchie, Instructor We Keep Bill Stockton, Senior Frank Terlouw. Freshmen, Orlando Sanchez and PAHS Art teacher, Shanna Lee (Not shown: Senior Shawn VanCleave.) Alejandro (Bean) Velasquez with senior Reyna Benitez Project: Rebuild a go-cart Project: Short term, the team plans to fnd f- Project: Create a book of her photographs Last year, a badly damaged go-cart was found nancing to improve the school soccer team’s Rodrigo Duterte • Phillipines Reyna will include samples of the diferent in a garbage can. Tis team plans to use it to equipment. Te team has applied for a grant Recep Erdogan • Turkey techniques she hopes to learn this semester, learn design, welding, framing, and more. from Dick’s Sporting Goods. Long term, they Abdel Fattah el-Sisi • Egypt including long exposures, motion blurs, sil- Mentor: Bill Stockton, retired PAHS Mainte- want to explore the feasibility of developing Saddam Hussein • Iraq houetes, and/or portraits. nance Manager a combo-feld, baseball and soccer, on the Mentor: Shanna Lee, PAHS art teacher Need: An 18hp motor existing football feld, which is now home to Kim Jong-un • North Korea Next step: Learn to use the exposure setings Next steps: Learn to draw to scale 1,000 gophers. Te existing soccer feld, lo- Valdimir Putin • Russia on the school’s camera cated beyond the baseball feld, is also gopher Mohammed bin Salman • Saudi Arabia infested and slants signifcantly downward. Donald Trump • USA Need: A mentor who knows construction and can read blueprints Xi Jinping • China Next step: Find soccer equipment for the school’s soccer team, which made the Divi- sion 3 playofs last year. An advertisement in the public interest paid for by a concerned citizen.

Pg 16 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 The Transition by Janet Chancellor DAVID: The moment David laid his like in night-time dreams. “Where I came from… before here.” body down, he felt like he had been David could see a split in time which They had never lived anywhere else. unshackled. He was free, limitless and opened into a passageway to infnity. He “Was it about a stork?” she asked. exhilarated! was drawn by love to move forward— “No.” Charlie insisted, “Tell me what One moment he had been bound to a not so much to receive love, as to give it. Daddy said.” He felt joy and peace in a magnitude that body in a world of chaos and confusion “Did Daddy tell you that you came from and the next he was… where was he? It he could not have imagined; could never describe. an egg?” Jenny asked, steadying her was not a place or a condition but rather voice; trying to hide her exasperation. a state of being. David wanted to tell his family not to worry; to be happy. When they were Charlie’s laugh interrupted her, and He had awareness of love and the Jenny smiled. She looked at her son… knowledge that there was nothing else; ready, they, too, would dream the dream of waking up, as he had. his hair the color of sunshine, his sweet nothing outside of love, and nothing else dimpled hands… his father’s smile. within him. He was Spirit and Mind CHARLIE: Charlie didn’t grasp what infused with…how could he put it… was going on -- except that Daddy “What did Daddy tell you?” She asked. infused with the simple thought, “God was gone. Charlie didn’t know where Her words seemed to be foating. She Is.” he went, or why, or for how long. His was just so tired. Everything was tilted. questions were like fragile butterfy A breeze was futtering the curtain, With his body gone, David had no tapping the pull against the window sill. needs. His eyes, previously used to give wings inside a warm cocoon; not yet suffciently formed to emerge as words. The nap of the carpet was too high, the form to nothingness, were replaced with shadows from the lamp, too dark…the holy vision in his mind. He could see the Charlie wasn’t sad; Mama was. He light, the colors, too bright. She felt as innocence and perfection of himSelf and couldn’t pull it all together – the visitors, though she were trudging through an of every person he had ever known. He the food, the hush-ness and lots of abstract painting; dragging her feet. could see their holiness shining; reaching people he didn’t know. Charlie had been across the Oneness to him. They were carried around, patted, kissed and cooed Charlie could see water welling up in his all here, even though some of them, like over like a baby. In all the fuss, he had mother’s eyes. When tears slipped down Jenny and Charlie, were still asleep missed his naptime and when he wet his her cheeks, he got scared. dreaming in a world of time and space. big-boy pull-ups nobody cared. It was when Jennie lifted Charlie into David’s earth dream had seemed real “Poor little sweetheart,” Aunt Sarah her arms that she felt her husband’s when he was dreaming it. But now he whispered, when she found Charlie presence embrace her; holding them realized that while he had been asleep asleep on the couch. His fngers were both. She sensed, more than felt him imagining “life in a body” he had always wrapped around the binding of his well- and her mind settled into peace. been right here in Heaven. Nothing in loved “blankey,” and his thumb was Jennie would not be able to explain it the dream had ever really happened just securely anchored in his mouth. Sarah later, except that she knew David was carried Charlie to his bedroom, helped okay. She also knew that this moment him into his “jammies” and kissed him on wrapping around them was at the same the top of his head. time, threading in and through eternity. 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Pg 18 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 October Is Voter Registration "Te Beasts of the Benthos'Scary Sancturary" Month • October 5, 19 by Mary Jane Schramm, Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Voter registration is available this month It is autumn; the Earth slowly turns Of the west coast of North America, it has adapted to tremendous pressure at at the Voter Registration table on the fol- its face from the sun’s resplendence and favors rocky habitats, from Alaska’s Bering over 3,000-foot depths, and low-oxygen lowing dates: toward the ever-darkening sky. Creatures of Sea southward to central California, and conditions that would kill many other sea Saturday, October 5 at Pay n Take at Gua- land and the air respond to this transition, across the North Pacifc Basin to depths of creatures. lala Community Center. Registration from and we humans, too: with fre festivals 3,120 f. 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Pg 19 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Manhatan Piano Trio Opens 2019-2020 Season Rachel Lahn •Featured Artist at the Artists Collective in Elk Performance At Gualala Arts • October 13 Opening Reception • October 12 Now in its 15th season the Manhatan ist and chamber musician including per- Rachel Lahn did her frst oil painting fections of my feelings, travels, and count- Piano Trio continues to impress the crit- formances at Carnegie Hall. A dedicated when she was eleven years old. Her early less transitions. I like my work to speak for ics'“a grand departure from the usual”. educator, Ivakhiv has conducted master passion for painting was followed by years of itself." Te musicians and their music are creative, classes and chamber music coaching at Yale, study at the Philadelphia Museum College Lahn builds exciting, and dynamic. Te Manhatan Trio Columbia and Penn State, to name a few. of Art. En Plein Air summer at the Univer- abstract relief will open the 2019-2020 Chamber Music Highly sought afer as a chamber musician, sity of Rhode Island, six glorious weeks at constructions Season. For this per- she frequently col- Haystack Mt. School of Crafs in Deer Isle, out of canvas, formance, veteran laborates with such Maine, college, and graduate school, all of plaster, wire member and pia- renowned artists as which solidifed and wood with nist Milana Strezeva Roberto Diaz, Philip her passion' mixed media. joins forces with Setzer, Marcy Rosen and earned She paints them with acrylic paint. Once colleagues Solomiya and Eugene Drucker, her a BFA and started they take on a life of their own, Ivakhiv, violin, and as well as numer- an MAT from one form inspiring the next. "When I need Sophie Shao, cello ous composers. Ms. Rhode Island shape and color inspiration for a piece, I go at Gualala Arts Sunday, October 13 at Ivakhiv is Assistant Professor of Violin and School of De- outside and absorb the life and light in the 4:00pm. Tickets for the concert are $25. Six Viola and Head of Strings at the University sign. She brings plants, Redwood trees, mountains, ocean concert season tickets for the are $125. of Connecticut and Professor of Violin at her art to the and sunlight that surround me. I paint Milana Strezeva has been praised by the Longy School of Music of Bard College. Artists Collective in Elk with an opening and draw the energies and shapes of na- Boston Globe for her “technically fuid, Cellist Sophie Shao, winner of the pres- reception on Saturday, October 12 from ture." Come and meet Rachel and enjoy dramatically convincing, and sonically tigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and top 3:00pm to 5:00pm. the art she has created at Te Elk Collec- full-bodied supportive collaborations”. A prizes at the Rostropovich and Tchaikovsky As Lahn has ofen stated, her enthusiasm tive Gallery, between the Elk post ofce Moldovan-American pianist Strezeva be- competitions, is a versatile and passionate for oils and painting with a brush evolved. and Queenie's restaurant, at 6031 South gan playing chamber music at age 11 with artist whose performances the New York "I picked up a palete knife and began lay- Highway 1. Te gallery is open daily from her clarinetist father and her mother, a re- Times has noted as “eloquent, powerful”. ering on paint. It was exhilarating! I was 10:00am-5:00 pm. nowned soprano. Her love for family col- Shao received critical acclaim throughout hooked!" My paintings and dimensional 707-877-1128. Rachel Lahn's art can also laboration eventually grew into a passionate the United States and internationally. A na- constructions are about movement fowing be found at www.abstractartmendocino. advocacy of vocal and instrumental cham- tive of Houston, Texas, Shao began playing into shapes of color and light . Tey are re- com. ber music. Strezeva is a recipient of Grand the cello at age six, enrolling at the Curtis Prizes at numerous festivals and competi- Institute of Music in Philadelphia at age tions, and received her Bachelor and Master thirteen. She continued her cello studies degrees from Te Juilliard School. at Yale University, receiving a B.A. in Reli- Violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv has quickly gious Studies, and an M.M. from the Yale earned a reputation for her work as a solo- School of Music.

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Pg 20 Lighthouse Peddler, October 2019 Get Out! October’s Music, Poetry, Theater, Films, Art and Events • Friday 04: 5:00pm, Coast Hwy Art Coll., Opening Reception: Jim Meilander & Joan Rhine • Friday 04: 5:00pm, Opening Reception for PPQG “One Red Square: show at Gualala Arts • Friday 04: 7:30pm, Cajun Zydeco Fest w/ Lloyd Meadows Tri Tip Trio at Arena Teater • Saturday 05: 8:30am, Voter Registration at Pay n Take at Gualala Community Center • Saturday 05: 5:00pm, Celebration of Life: Ron Sackman, at Gualala Arts Center • Saturday 05: 5:00pm, Reception: Fused Glass&Chinese Brush Painting. Dolphin Gallery • Saturday 05: 7:00pm, BAKU’s fusion of Jazz and Afro beat at Gualala Hotel • Monday 07: 7:00pm, Arena Teater Film Club presents “M” at Arena Teater • Friday 11: 6:00pm, Music Trivia with Te Casuals, ‘til 9pm. Prizes & fun at Gualala Hotel. • Saturday 12: 9:55am, MET Opera Live: Puccini’s “Turandot” at Arena Teater. • Saturday 12: 6:30pm, Almost Full Hunter’s Moon Tour at Pt. Arena Lighthouse • Saturday 12: 7:00pm, Stevie & the Shufenuts blues at Gualala Hotel • Sunday 13: 4:00pm, Manhatan Piano Trio at Gualala Arts Chamber Music Series • Sunday 13: 6:30pm, Full Hunter’s Moon Tour at Pt. Arena Lighthouse • Monday 14: 7:00pm, ATFC presents “Te River & Te Wall” at Arena Teater • Tuesday 15: 7:00pm, Music on Film Nite “ Te Punk Singer” at Arena Teater • Wednesday 16: 8:00am, Annual Health Fair For All Schools at Pt. Arena High’s gym. • Tursday 17: 7:30pm, Roberta Werdinger at 3rd Tursday Poetry at Arena Market & Cafe • Friday 18: 8:00pm, Karaoke with Arlene, until 11pm at Gualala Hotel. • Saturday 19: 8:30am, Voter Registration at Pay n Take at Gualala Community Center • Saturday 19: 10:00am, Discover Te Coast. Nature Walks, Free Lighthouse Admission, more. • Saturday 19: 1:00pm, National Teater Live “All About Eve” at Arena Teater. • Saturday 19: 4:00pm, Farm to Table Fundraising Dinner for Arena Teater at Oz Farm. • Saturday 19: 6:00pm, Dinner show with Korazon & Twist at Gualala Hotel. • Saturday 19: 6:30pm, Lecture at Pt. Arena Lighthouse with B Bryan Preserve Zookeeper • Sunday 20: 5:00pm, 70th+ Birthday Celebration at Gualala Arts • Monday 21: 7:00pm, Film, “Te Monsanto Papers” at Manchester Commnunity Ctr • Wednesday 23: 7:30pm, Irish Superstar Band Daimh, live at Arena Teater. • Friday 25: 7:00pm, Jazzin’ 3, Tin Pan Alley standards of the 30s & 40s, at Gualala Hotel • Saturday 26: 9:55am, MET Opera Live: Massenet’s “Manon” at Arena Teater • Saturday 26: 6:30pm, Jazz In Te Autumn featuring Jamie Davis at Gualala Arts • Saturday 26: 6:00pm, Halloween Costume Party, featuring THRIVE! at Gualala Hotel. • Monday 28: 7:00pm, ATFC presents “You Can’t Take It With You” at Arena Teater • Tursday 31: 4:00pm, Halloween on Main Street. Fun, Trick or Treat, Pt. Arena • Tursday 31: 4:30pm, Trunk or Treat at Gualala Hotel. Until sunset. • Tursday 31: 8:00pm, Halloween Show with La Gente SF at Arena Teater.