I have been tweaking this website since I completed my initial listings of sunny state history websites. I am in the process of setting up the film to digital workflow in order to start adding original content. In the meantime please explore my links!
I am also working on a Kindle Single based on Allen's childhood titled: "EllieDee; A Bright Boy in a Dark Time". Yes I did inherit his love for puns. When Allen was born, his parents had settled on a name for him: Eldean. Being native Low-German speakers, this was mistranslated as Ellen Dean on the birth certificate. Allen had this changed before he went to college but retained the story for his personal use his entire life and shared it often.
He also shared the story of living in a cannabis patch only finding out about it when a travelling "salesman" stopped to sell a book on dangerous drugs when he was seven. When returning to the area to inter his ashes, I stopped by his old farmstead on Beaver Creek and sure enough, it WAS a cannabis patch!
I paid $35 for that 1934 pamphlet on AbeBooks and it's not even printed on hemp paper. Go figure.
By the way, most books were printed on hemp before William Randolph Hearst began promoting the use of wood fibre. They will last longer than newer books that retain the chemicals needed to produce paper from wood. The industry still hasn't found a way to effectively monetize the lignin they extract in this endeavor, although efforts in this regard are proceeding.
Please remember to taste wine responsibly in Oregon on Memorial Day Weekend. It's the spring version of the twice yearly event that encourages visits to small wineries that are not open year round. Most wineries in the state time new releases to these weekends, so go now or wait till Thanksgiving.
I am also working on a Kindle Single based on Allen's childhood titled: "EllieDee; A Bright Boy in a Dark Time". Yes I did inherit his love for puns. When Allen was born, his parents had settled on a name for him: Eldean. Being native Low-German speakers, this was mistranslated as Ellen Dean on the birth certificate. Allen had this changed before he went to college but retained the story for his personal use his entire life and shared it often.
He also shared the story of living in a cannabis patch only finding out about it when a travelling "salesman" stopped to sell a book on dangerous drugs when he was seven. When returning to the area to inter his ashes, I stopped by his old farmstead on Beaver Creek and sure enough, it WAS a cannabis patch!
I paid $35 for that 1934 pamphlet on AbeBooks and it's not even printed on hemp paper. Go figure.
By the way, most books were printed on hemp before William Randolph Hearst began promoting the use of wood fibre. They will last longer than newer books that retain the chemicals needed to produce paper from wood. The industry still hasn't found a way to effectively monetize the lignin they extract in this endeavor, although efforts in this regard are proceeding.
Please remember to taste wine responsibly in Oregon on Memorial Day Weekend. It's the spring version of the twice yearly event that encourages visits to small wineries that are not open year round. Most wineries in the state time new releases to these weekends, so go now or wait till Thanksgiving.
