Native American Medicine

Some say Rocky Stallings knows more about early Native American life than anyone in the country.  He listened to the elders.  Listened and learned.  Where most folks see weeds, Rocky was taught to find medicine.  On a hill near his home in San...

Tina Allen Gets a Life

Tina Allen has a date with a new day.  We met her the year before, checking into an Atlanta hospice.  Alone. Doctors told the young woman she’d be dead from a brain tumor in three months.  But something rare happened inside her head.  The tumor...

Elusive Fireflies of Light

Jake Hoover was looking for gold in Yogo Creek. He discovered something more. What little gold he found was cluttered with blue stones. He tossed them into a cigar box and sent them off to Tiffany’s. The New York jewelers fired back a check. The old prospector...

Kids Soap Opera

If you want to know what’s happening at Henderson school, you don’t join the Yearbook staff.  You watch a Soap Opera at lunch time.  Each Friday, the kids in the cafeteria share a second carton of milk with “The Growing Years.” ...

California’s First Surfers

Sliding through a hurricane of surf.  Heartbeats clock the distance.  This sport can make a young person old or an old man young again. Look beneath their wrinkles, you’ll find the beginnings of California’s surfing.   Sliding through a hurricane of surf. ...