Jeanne Schinto
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Bidders Check Out Copley’s Library
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Bidders at the fourth and final auction of the now-defunct James S. Copley Library, held at Sotheby’s in New York City on May 20, did what they had done at ...
Historic Papers in the Wind
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Bidders at the auction of the now-dissolved James S. Copley Library, held at Sotheby’s in New York City on April 14, drove the price of a 75-word letter signed by ...
H is for Hacker
Thursday, June 19, 2003
Like many hackers, David Nakamura Hulton goes by more than one name. His other one, his handle, is h1kari. Some people say you shouldn’t ask a hacker what his handle ...
Too Close for Comfort
Thursday, April 10, 2003
North Island Naval Air Station is impressive from the sky — 2600 acres dotted with buildings and trucks and cars. Looking at an aerial photo taken when 4 of the ...
Slave Soldiers
Thursday, March 13, 2003
"I live a perfect life,” Lester Tenney told me. “I’ve been a very fortunate man.” We were sitting in the sunshine on his patio on Mount Soledad. Betty, his wife ...
He's Sad for Ships
Thursday, Dec. 19, 2002
Richard DeRosset was shipwrecked on the 21st of May 1977 while returning from a commercial fishing trip off the banks of San Nicolas Island. There was a stack fire on ...
How Do You Like Our Moonscape?
Thursday, Oct. 17, 2002
As we drove through the San Felipe Valley, Ann and Tom Keenan pointed out a lone house ringed with greenery on the blackened hillside. A small circle, saved. It's one ...
Birds Squared
Thursday, July 11, 2002
A steer skeleton lay in the dry creek bed. Tom extracted a tooth from its skull and handed it to me like a picked flower. Its roots were long and ...
Desperately Seeking Blondie
Thursday, May 23, 2002
“It’s humbling to be beaten by Blondie,” says David Fogel, who many times has stayed up late to play checkers with her. I tell him I wouldn’t be humbled if ...
Bright Eye
Thursday, May 3, 2001
“I’m a scopophiliac, I guess,” says Arthur Ollman. “I love to look.” What the founding director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park loves to look at is ...
