Some friends and colleagues have invited me and you to support this wonderful documentary that tells of the post-War innovation we all benefit from of Holocaust survivor Henry Glass and his wife Elly Glass. This is your chance to help tell this story while Mrs. Glass is still able to share it. – Barry The [...]

California, it turns out, has too many Chihuahuas. New York City does not have enough. So animal welfare officials in San Francisco and Manhattan arranged for what a Virgin America press release dubbed a “Chihuahua airlift” — 15 homeless dogs from the Bay Area were flown to Kennedy by the airline so they could be [...]

The year was 1963, President Kennedy had started the race to the moon, and tween boys and their Dads needed to learn all about the engineering involved to be good Americans. This book, found last weekend at the Porterville Friends of the Library monthly sale fills the role of a book a son and his [...]

Another curious find at the Porterville Friends of the Library “Dusty Book” sale: This mass paperback autobiography (“as told to Richard G. Hubler”) . Published in 1965, probably at the beginning of his campaign to become Governor of California, this looks to be nothing short of propaganda and marketing. Probably not meant to be read [...]

This book could not have been a better fast read at any price, and at 25 cents, it will have a treasured spot on my bookshelf. There is another baseball book I noticed there, even older, that will probably find a new home after decades on the dusty shelves.

Welcome to 2010. I have a bunch of fun curiosities from Porterville to share with you over the next few months, starting tonight as I hang out in Starbucks. Found old photos and news stories, books from the once-a-month cellar sale by the Friends of Porterville Library, and more! Enjoy and please share your comments [...]