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"content": "\u003cp>The wildfires ravaging Lake County this summer might have an impact unnoticed by most people: the increased looting of ancient Native American artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Pomo residents worry that the fires, which have cleared trees and structures off land, and the drought, which has lowered water levels at Clear Lake, are making it easier for looters to unearth relics that belonged to their ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225040171\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although theft at Native American sites is nothing new, local sheriff's deputies are being trained for the first time in how to identify and investigate these crimes. That led to the arrest last month of a man suspected of stealing obsidian arrowheads and other artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case may be the first arrest of its kind in Lake County, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cultural treasures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obsidian cutting tools at the center of this case look similar to the arrowheads that Batsulwin Brown is pulling out of a small box at Big Valley Rancheria near the city of Lakeport. The reservation is home to Pomo Indians who have a long history of hunting and fishing in Clear Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, tribal historic preservation officer at Big Valley, picks through the arrowheads, which he estimates are at least 500 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1440x1011.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the most defined pieces here. Feel the edges. It still has a very sharp edge,” says Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, he carefully removes a collection of clam shell beads from labeled plastic bags. He estimates these beads are about 5,000 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fragile. You can see some of the white residue coming on my fingers from the shells,” says Brown, adding that local authorities returned these beads to the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians after a landowner dug them up from his garden and turned them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, these artifacts are invaluable. They connect today’s Pomo to their ancestors in a physical way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Helps paint a picture for us of what went on out there if we don’t have any members or direct descendants who lived at that site to give us more information,” says Brown, who grew up at the Elem Pomo reservation near the town of Clearlake Oaks, playing at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/superfund/eparecovery/sulphur_bank.html\" target=\"_blank\">Superfund site\u003c/a> next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He considers the mercury pollution from that mine, which he says led to deadly cancers among his relatives, as one of many injustices faced by local tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692355 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg\" alt=\"Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that the lake’s drop in water levels and wildfires are making archaeological sites easier to loot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1440x880.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1180x721.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Rancheria at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that wildfires and the lake’s drop in water levels are making archaeological sites more accessible to looters. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the healing needed by Native American communities, says Brown, is brought about by piecing together their rich history from ancient artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown and other native residents fear that in many cases, tools, effigies and other remains from Pomo archaeological sites are stolen for commercial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The arrest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 22, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer discovered obsidian cutting tools and other artifacts inside the van of a man he suspected of being high on methamphetamines and trespassing on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I booked him on felony possession of these artifacts, and the investigation is ongoing,” says Kreutzer, who has worked with the sheriff’s office since 2012. “I’m currently trying to confirm where the items were removed from to bring this evidence to a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10685641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10685641 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on August 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on Aug. 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The arrest came only two days after Kreutzer and other deputies took an intensive, three-day training on archeological crimes. The event was co-hosted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.koination.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Koi Nation of Northern California\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.upperlakepomo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake\u003c/a> and Kreutzer’s boss, Sheriff Brian Martin, who took office this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state laws prohibit people from taking these artifacts. In California, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1801-1850/sb_1816_bill_20020630_amended_asm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Native American Historic Resource Protection Act\u003c/a> punishes the unlawful excavation or destruction of Native American sites as a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, this law hadn't been enforced here. That is why the sheriff’s office says this arrest might be the first of its kind in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all honesty, I might have come across these types of things in other calls but didn’t necessarily knew what they were,” says Kreutzer. “Now thanks to this training ... we are a little more aware of what we are looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic archaeologist Martin McAllister led the training and has worked on hundreds of cases involving looters in Arizona and other parts of the country since 1977. He says archaeological crimes are frequently connected to drug use, especially meth, with looters selling relics to buy drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692364\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692364 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead are some of the items recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near Clear Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead were recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near the city of Lakeport. A local landowner found the beads in his property and turned them in to local authorities, while the Big Valley historic preservation team identified the spearhead during a public works project. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Typically (looters) are going to be high on some type of drug like methamphetamine. They are going to be armed, and they know what they are doing is illegal, so it can create a very dangerous situation out there on the ground,” says McAllister by phone from Missoula, Montana, where he resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that once these items wind up in the black market, they can fetch big money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a multimillion-dollar industry here in the United States,” says McAllister, adding that the international black market for all archaeologically significant items is estimated at $7 billion. “It’s second only to drugs and weapons, in terms of the amount of money it generates every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high incidence of meth use in Lake County likely plays a role in looting, says McAllister. Lake County leads the state's 58 counties in terms of drug-induced deaths, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/ohir/Documents/OHIRProfiles2015.pdf\">figures\u003c/a> from the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that drought conditions and wildfires are exposing archaeological sites around Clear Lake that were not visible, making these potential troves more accessible than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfires and drought increase access in Lake County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires raging in the area since July have burned vegetation and structures in 171,000 acres so far. At the same time, the state’s four-year drought is making Clear Lake’s shoreline recede as water levels drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2011, Clear Lake’s water levels were about 2 feet higher than today, says Andrew Watson, field office chief at the U.S. Geological Survey Ukiah branch. During a wet year such as 1984, water levels were 10 feet higher than today, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"tv6V4uHzKsYZriZwzLbfJiFDY0J1FgoL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dino Beltran, from the Koi Nation, says the theft of Native American relics has occurred for many decades, regardless of the weather. He first alerted authorities to these crimes after he spotted a pair of suspicious diggers on marshland near his ancestral home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People trying to benefit from somebody else's belongings that should be left on the ground,” says Beltran, who pushed for the training with local law enforcement. “I mean they are sacred objects. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cultural treasures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obsidian cutting tools at the center of this case look similar to the arrowheads that Batsulwin Brown is pulling out of a small box at Big Valley Rancheria near the city of Lakeport. The reservation is home to Pomo Indians who have a long history of hunting and fishing in Clear Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake wholly within the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, tribal historic preservation officer at Big Valley, picks through the arrowheads, which he estimates are at least 500 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1440x1011.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ObsidianHeads-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obsidian spear and arrowheads such as these at the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians in Lake County may fetch hundreds of dollars in the black market. Local Pomo people want to recover these items and stop these crimes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the most defined pieces here. Feel the edges. It still has a very sharp edge,” says Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, he carefully removes a collection of clam shell beads from labeled plastic bags. He estimates these beads are about 5,000 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fragile. You can see some of the white residue coming on my fingers from the shells,” says Brown, adding that local authorities returned these beads to the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians after a landowner dug them up from his garden and turned them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brown, these artifacts are invaluable. They connect today’s Pomo to their ancestors in a physical way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Helps paint a picture for us of what went on out there if we don’t have any members or direct descendants who lived at that site to give us more information,” says Brown, who grew up at the Elem Pomo reservation near the town of Clearlake Oaks, playing at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/superfund/eparecovery/sulphur_bank.html\" target=\"_blank\">Superfund site\u003c/a> next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He considers the mercury pollution from that mine, which he says led to deadly cancers among his relatives, as one of many injustices faced by local tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692355 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg\" alt=\"Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that the lake’s drop in water levels and wildfires are making archaeological sites easier to loot.\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1440x880.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-1180x721.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BatsulwinBrown-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batsulwin Brown, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Rancheria at Clear Lake on Sept. 10. Brown is concerned that wildfires and the lake’s drop in water levels are making archaeological sites more accessible to looters. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the healing needed by Native American communities, says Brown, is brought about by piecing together their rich history from ancient artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown and other native residents fear that in many cases, tools, effigies and other remains from Pomo archaeological sites are stolen for commercial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The arrest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 22, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer discovered obsidian cutting tools and other artifacts inside the van of a man he suspected of being high on methamphetamines and trespassing on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I booked him on felony possession of these artifacts, and the investigation is ongoing,” says Kreutzer, who has worked with the sheriff’s office since 2012. “I’m currently trying to confirm where the items were removed from to bring this evidence to a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10685641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10685641 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on August 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16686_IMG_9481.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two days after receiving a training on archaeological crimes, Lake County Deputy Sheriff Richard Kreutzer arrested a transient man suspected of looting Native American artifacts on Aug. 22. This arrest may be the first its kind in Lake County. Kreutzer was photographed at the Sheriff's offices in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The arrest came only two days after Kreutzer and other deputies took an intensive, three-day training on archeological crimes. The event was co-hosted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.koination.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Koi Nation of Northern California\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.upperlakepomo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake\u003c/a> and Kreutzer’s boss, Sheriff Brian Martin, who took office this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state laws prohibit people from taking these artifacts. In California, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1801-1850/sb_1816_bill_20020630_amended_asm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Native American Historic Resource Protection Act\u003c/a> punishes the unlawful excavation or destruction of Native American sites as a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, this law hadn't been enforced here. That is why the sheriff’s office says this arrest might be the first of its kind in Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all honesty, I might have come across these types of things in other calls but didn’t necessarily knew what they were,” says Kreutzer. “Now thanks to this training ... we are a little more aware of what we are looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic archaeologist Martin McAllister led the training and has worked on hundreds of cases involving looters in Arizona and other parts of the country since 1977. He says archaeological crimes are frequently connected to drug use, especially meth, with looters selling relics to buy drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10692364\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10692364 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead are some of the items recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near Clear Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/BeadsAndHead-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clam shell beads and an obsidian spearhead were recovered by the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians near the city of Lakeport. A local landowner found the beads in his property and turned them in to local authorities, while the Big Valley historic preservation team identified the spearhead during a public works project. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Typically (looters) are going to be high on some type of drug like methamphetamine. They are going to be armed, and they know what they are doing is illegal, so it can create a very dangerous situation out there on the ground,” says McAllister by phone from Missoula, Montana, where he resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that once these items wind up in the black market, they can fetch big money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a multimillion-dollar industry here in the United States,” says McAllister, adding that the international black market for all archaeologically significant items is estimated at $7 billion. “It’s second only to drugs and weapons, in terms of the amount of money it generates every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high incidence of meth use in Lake County likely plays a role in looting, says McAllister. Lake County leads the state's 58 counties in terms of drug-induced deaths, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/ohir/Documents/OHIRProfiles2015.pdf\">figures\u003c/a> from the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister says that drought conditions and wildfires are exposing archaeological sites around Clear Lake that were not visible, making these potential troves more accessible than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfires and drought increase access in Lake County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires raging in the area since July have burned vegetation and structures in 171,000 acres so far. At the same time, the state’s four-year drought is making Clear Lake’s shoreline recede as water levels drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2011, Clear Lake’s water levels were about 2 feet higher than today, says Andrew Watson, field office chief at the U.S. Geological Survey Ukiah branch. During a wet year such as 1984, water levels were 10 feet higher than today, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dino Beltran, from the Koi Nation, says the theft of Native American relics has occurred for many decades, regardless of the weather. He first alerted authorities to these crimes after he spotted a pair of suspicious diggers on marshland near his ancestral home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People trying to benefit from somebody else's belongings that should be left on the ground,” says Beltran, who pushed for the training with local law enforcement. “I mean they are sacred objects. You don’t see Native Americans going to a cemetery and digging up the cemetery, so why would anyone want to do anything sacrilegious to a Native American site?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you want to recreate the Gold Rush experience -- without all the terrible conditions -- you can pan for gold, even descend into mines. In a few places, you can even eat the most prized meal of the Gold Rush, with a kind of bizarre combination of ingredients. That’s what I went off to El Dorado County in search of: the Hangtown Fry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called almost all the restaurants in the town of Placerville before I struck gold at the Buttercup Pantry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224524886\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the only place left that I know of that still serves the Hangtown Fry,” says Erica Houston, whose family owns the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t forget: there is a disclaimer,\" she says with a laugh. \"It is eat at your own risk. If you don’t like it, you have been warned. Seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10688560\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/HangtownFryButtercup-800x698.jpg\" alt=\"The Hangtown Fry at the Buttercup Pantry in Placerville.\" width=\"800\" height=\"698\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10688560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/HangtownFryButtercup-800x698.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/HangtownFryButtercup-400x349.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/HangtownFryButtercup-1440x1256.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/HangtownFryButtercup.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/HangtownFryButtercup-1180x1029.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/HangtownFryButtercup-960x837.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hangtown Fry at the Buttercup Pantry in Placerville. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s made of eggs, bacon -- and oysters. Houston has never tried it, but I do. And after a few bites, my biggest takeaway is that the bacon really helps the dish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the restaurant staff I talked to had tried the Hangtown Fry. So why serve it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it’s cool,” says Houston. “It’s a unique piece of history we were able to recreate, because we are old Hangtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out the history behind that name, Hangtown, I visit local historian Marilyn Ferguson at the \u003ca href=\"http://eldoradocountyhistoricalsociety.org/fountaintallman2.htm\">Fountain and Tallman Museum\u003c/a> on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7vKoOQn9IZdNlSlq7aKliHeHtJmTG4U0\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says, for the people staking claims here in 1849, before statehood, “They had to have some kind of rule of law, some control over the bad guys: the gamblers, the robbers, those kinds of people. They didn’t fool around with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when a few men who were on the run from a murder rap robbed a guy in Placerville, they were tried and hanged. And a nickname was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10688565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"Marilyn Ferguson, local historian at the Fountain and Tallman Museum on Main Street in Placerville.\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10688565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-960x678.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marilyn Ferguson, local historian at the Fountain and Tallman Museum on Main Street in Placerville. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hangtown is certainly an attention-getter!” says Ferguson. And not a bad name for a mining camp, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s right,\" she says. \"It was a deterrent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about the Hangtown Fry? Alhough Ferguson hasn’t found any firsthand accounts, it’s widely believed to have been created in 1849 or ’50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A miner hit it rich,” says Ferguson. “He came into the El Dorado Hotel and ordered the most expensive things they had on the menu, which turned out to be oysters, bacon and eggs.” That's because these ingredients were hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10688567\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-800x694.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Tadich Grill started in 1849 as a coffee tent on the wharf. They've been serving the Hangtown Fry for over 160 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"694\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10688567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-800x694.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-400x347.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-1440x1250.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-1180x1024.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-960x833.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco's Tadich Grill started in 1849 as a coffee tent on the wharf. They've been serving the Hangtown Fry for over 160 years. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oysters from San Francisco Bay -- transported by horseback, on ice -- could cost $1 each. Some are even believed to have been shipped in barrels from the East Coast, around the Horn. And in those early years of the Gold Rush, there were very few farms with livestock like chickens and pigs. The Hangtown Fry denoted status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was letting people know he was rich,” Ferguson says, “and he could have anything he wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The normal options were paltry. In a glass case at the museum, Ferguson points out an old bill of fare from the El Dorado Hotel in 1850 that indicated that the scale was at the end of the bar. All items had to be paid for in gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a menu here: They had beef, they had jackrabbit, they had grizzly bear,” says Ferguson. Grizzly bear was prepared three different ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10688571\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-800x592.jpg\" alt=\"Tadich Grill general manager David Hanna.\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10688571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-800x592.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-400x296.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-1440x1065.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-1180x873.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-960x710.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tadich Grill general manager David Hanna. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I tell that to David Hanna, general manager of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.tadichgrill.com/\">Tadich Grill\u003c/a>, he laughs, “You won’t find that here! It might sell, but you won’t find that here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a classic seafood restaurant -- think wooden booths, waiters in white jackets and three-martini lunches even today -- that began in 1849.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three Croatian immigrants started it off as a tent on the long wharf, serving coffee to merchant sailors as they came into the bay,” says Hanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the restaurant went brick and mortar over 160 years ago, it has served a Hangtown Fry. Its origin story is a little different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10688628\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"The Tadich Grill's version of the Hangtown Fry.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10688628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-400x248.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-1440x893.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-960x595.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tadich Grill's version of the Hangtown Fry. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The one we tell is, it was one of the last meals that people condemned to die would order,” says Hanna. Those guys on Gold Rush death row knew they could extend their lives by requesting such hard-to-get ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He takes me into the kitchen, where cook Luis DeLeon crisps breaded oysters and bacon strips in a deep fryer, then whisks three eggs. He tosses scallions and tomatoes in a buttered pan on the stovetop, then pours the eggs over the fried bits, frittata-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since I’m a believer in second chances, this dish is for me. It’s really different having those oysters deep-fried. I’d order it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, for the first time ever, the Tadich Grill is expanding, opening a sister restaurant in Washington, D.C. On the menu? The Hangtown Fry.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And a nickname was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10688565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"Marilyn Ferguson, local historian at the Fountain and Tallman Museum on Main Street in Placerville.\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10688565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Ferguson-960x678.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marilyn Ferguson, local historian at the Fountain and Tallman Museum on Main Street in Placerville. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hangtown is certainly an attention-getter!” says Ferguson. And not a bad name for a mining camp, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s right,\" she says. \"It was a deterrent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about the Hangtown Fry? Alhough Ferguson hasn’t found any firsthand accounts, it’s widely believed to have been created in 1849 or ’50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A miner hit it rich,” says Ferguson. “He came into the El Dorado Hotel and ordered the most expensive things they had on the menu, which turned out to be oysters, bacon and eggs.” That's because these ingredients were hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10688567\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-800x694.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Tadich Grill started in 1849 as a coffee tent on the wharf. They've been serving the Hangtown Fry for over 160 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"694\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10688567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-800x694.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-400x347.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-1440x1250.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-1180x1024.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichGrill-960x833.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco's Tadich Grill started in 1849 as a coffee tent on the wharf. They've been serving the Hangtown Fry for over 160 years. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oysters from San Francisco Bay -- transported by horseback, on ice -- could cost $1 each. Some are even believed to have been shipped in barrels from the East Coast, around the Horn. And in those early years of the Gold Rush, there were very few farms with livestock like chickens and pigs. The Hangtown Fry denoted status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was letting people know he was rich,” Ferguson says, “and he could have anything he wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The normal options were paltry. In a glass case at the museum, Ferguson points out an old bill of fare from the El Dorado Hotel in 1850 that indicated that the scale was at the end of the bar. All items had to be paid for in gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a menu here: They had beef, they had jackrabbit, they had grizzly bear,” says Ferguson. Grizzly bear was prepared three different ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10688571\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-800x592.jpg\" alt=\"Tadich Grill general manager David Hanna.\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10688571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-800x592.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-400x296.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-1440x1065.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-1180x873.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Hanna-960x710.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tadich Grill general manager David Hanna. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I tell that to David Hanna, general manager of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.tadichgrill.com/\">Tadich Grill\u003c/a>, he laughs, “You won’t find that here! It might sell, but you won’t find that here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a classic seafood restaurant -- think wooden booths, waiters in white jackets and three-martini lunches even today -- that began in 1849.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three Croatian immigrants started it off as a tent on the long wharf, serving coffee to merchant sailors as they came into the bay,” says Hanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the restaurant went brick and mortar over 160 years ago, it has served a Hangtown Fry. Its origin story is a little different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10688628\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"The Tadich Grill's version of the Hangtown Fry.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10688628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-400x248.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-1440x893.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/TadichFry-960x595.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tadich Grill's version of the Hangtown Fry. \u003ccite>(Vickie Ly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The one we tell is, it was one of the last meals that people condemned to die would order,” says Hanna. Those guys on Gold Rush death row knew they could extend their lives by requesting such hard-to-get ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He takes me into the kitchen, where cook Luis DeLeon crisps breaded oysters and bacon strips in a deep fryer, then whisks three eggs. He tosses scallions and tomatoes in a buttered pan on the stovetop, then pours the eggs over the fried bits, frittata-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since I’m a believer in second chances, this dish is for me. It’s really different having those oysters deep-fried. I’d order it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, for the first time ever, the Tadich Grill is expanding, opening a sister restaurant in Washington, D.C. On the menu? The Hangtown Fry.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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They’re totally aware of our deadline, and the deadline is how long can we pay the bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tchen said she is anxious to reach a resolution one way or the other because she wants customers who have purchased prepaid packages to have enough time to use their remaining rentals; she said she won’t be able to issue refunds. The store stopped selling these at the beginning of August, Tchen said, in anticipation of having to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the identity of the company she’s in discussion with, all she will say is, “It’s people who are film lovers and who really sustain the arts, and it would be a great home for the collection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guesses, anyone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one really knows how many titles San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.levideo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Video\u003c/a> has in stock. The store thinks it’s around 90,000, but that’s an estimate. The breadth of the collection, containing many rare and out-of-print films from around the world, has long elated browsing cinephiles, though much less frequently in recent years as consumers gravitated in throngs to online services like Netflix, Amazon and iTunes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the story of the long slow decline of Le Video, an Inner Sunset fixture for 35 years, has reached what appears to be a climax: The store is currently in discussion with a prospective buyer, owner Catherine Tchen said, and if the deal doesn’t go through, Le Video will sell off its massive collection and close down by Dec. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tchen hopes to know the final outcome by Friday, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who might buy the store? Tchen wouldn’t say, but she thought the potential new owner would be a good fit in keeping the film’s huge inventory available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [the deal] does go through it will really be amazing, because the people I’m talking to have the perfect form and have the perfect name and probably have the perfect energy in thinking out of the box for a collection like Le Video’s,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tchen said if an agreement is reached, the store would move from its present location and might take a new name. “That doesn’t matter to me,” she said. “It’s being kept in one place and open to the public is my goal. If [the collection] belongs to a university, it’s OK for me, because I’ll recover a little bit of what I have put in of my personal money … but people wouldn’t have access to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people I’m talking to will keep it open to the public. It will have room to grow and be much more. I assume it will be a store; it might also be cross-promoted with what they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if a deal can’t be reached, she said, she will sell the collection to the public, in what is bound to be a frenzy of film lovers looking for cinematic gold. “All the movies would be up for sale,” Tchen said. “Every week the price would go down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le Video’s dwindling customer base has seen this movie before, so to speak. In March 2014, Tchen wrote on Facebook that barring a “miracle,” she would shut down at the end of April. The store had been losing money for years, and she could no longer afford to house the copious but unprofitable collection in the large ground floor of the building she owns, rather than renting the space out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the store used a successful Indiegogo campaign to finance a transition to an upstairs space one-fourth the size, renting out the bottom floor to Green Apple Books, another iconic San Francisco retailer. But John Taylor, the store’s manager and buyer, said business has dropped by about another one-third since the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mainly just people didn’t know we were here,” he said. “They’d walk by and see the bookstore, and no matter how many signs we have out front, no one sees them. People would say, ‘You need a sign.’ We have three signs. There’s not much more we can do in the sign department.’ People just assumed we were closed and there’s no way to really change that perception.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tchen, for her part, said the problem lies in the store’s enthusiastic but infrequent customer base. “People call and say, ‘Do you have this?’ and say, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe you have it, you were my last resort.’ People think about us when they’ve exhausted every other resource. And of course we have what they want 99 percent of the time. The problem is we can’t keep the door open.” She said more than 3,000 new customers came in from January to May, “but most of those people came once because they just couldn’t find it anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tchen, 61, lives in Portland and is a native of Paris. She came to San Francisco in 1976. She started Le Video as a window display in her camera store, and it eventually took over. She said the building is her only means of income, and she simply cannot afford anymore to subsidize the business, in part because she has to support her mother, who has dementia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have a penny left to put toward it,” she said. “My greatest satisfaction has always been to be able to buy everything, to hunt for movies. I can’t hunt anymore because I can’t even afford to buy what comes out in this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the deal that is now under consideration falls through, she would be open to another buyer if one emerged, she said. 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"content": "\u003cp>This is not a story about whether porn is good or bad. This is not a story about whether porn addiction \u003cem>should\u003c/em> be a clinical diagnosis. This is a story about Liam (and we’re not using his real name because of the sensitive nature of the topic).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Liam, porn became a compulsive, damaging habit around the time that high-speed Internet came around -- which is to say, his entire adult life, starting when he was 20. He’s 38 now, and it’s been a little over a year since he decided to quit. We asked him to go back in time for us and describe what his habit was like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don't miss an episode of 'Love in the Digital Age'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Bubble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a bubble,\" he recalls. \"It's like an exciting, adrenaline-filled state of mind where you're not thinking about, 'OK, I have these bills due,' or 'I have to go meet my boss tomorrow and I'm nervous,' or 'She wants to talk about the relationship and I don't want to!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, Liam would stay in the bubble for five, 10 hours at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The variety of porn today is mind-boggling and unprecedented. Liam spent his hours scanning hundreds of images linking to videos, scrolling until he found just the right one for that moment. \"OK, there’s the girl I want to look at.\" Then he'd scroll some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or perhaps he'd meet or pass a woman during the day that sparked his curiosity. “OK, I want to see what it would look like if that person was having sex.\" He'd go home and search for a video featuring somebody who looked like that woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"omWBriHHbVruyoAMyZ6MkR4EfKWEQkXW\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liam's level of engagement with porn may have been more compulsive than average but it's hard to know, because many men are uncomfortable going public with their porn use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's an extra-special element of shame to this problem,\" says Liam, adding that people will \"deny it up and down the street, like I used to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pornography inspires powerful emotional responses, from those who see it as immoral, to those who feel it is \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201307/your-brain-porn-its-not-addictive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demonized \u003c/a>by parents and the media, to those who would simply \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/was-i-actually-addicted-to-internet-pornography/276619/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">love a scientific explanation\u003c/a> for what they're experiencing. Sex, after all, is universal in a way few things are, other than food and sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this TED Talk, one of Liam's favorite public discussions about porn, retired science teacher Gary Wilson notes many researchers say they can't find a control group of men who have not been exposed to some pornography at some point in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liam, who works in construction and lives in Los Angeles, is no awkward loner using porn as a stand-in for human contact. He's the son of a therapist, raised in a \"liberal\" home in Santa Cruz. He's articulate and charming, and a veteran of several relationships, one of which almost led to marriage. But from early on, those girlfriends were competing with porn for primacy in Liam's mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Excitement and shame mixed together makes [porn] this erotic thing, whereas just being with someone’s kinda boring,\" Liam says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say Liam wasn't bothered by what he called his emotional numbness. \"It’s almost like when I’m looking at pornography, I’m burning off the little receptors that are my feelings and enable me to care for somebody. You know, they get fried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Of course, I had these fantasies of ... oh, I want to do X, Y and Z once I saw that in a pornographic movie. But once I would find someone who was willing to do whatever I wanted, I’d be bored, like, right away.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over the years, friends suggested to Liam he consider getting help, but he brushed them off. Ironically, he was open -- even proud -- of his involvement with \u003ca href=\"http://www.aa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcoholics Anonymous\u003c/a>. He's been in AA for 16 years now, thriving on the structured approach to recovery and the supportive community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, about a year and a half ago, Liam paid for sex. \"The first time I did, I thought 'This is a great solution.' You know what I mean? 'Cause I can pay someone to be nice to me, and have sex with me, and it worked great.\" But subsequent dates were less enjoyable. \"I can’t describe other than, like, wow: This is the loneliest I’ve ever felt.\" By the fourth time, he says, \"I couldn't even have sex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Liam went to a men’s-only AA meeting and dropped an anonymous note into a basket asking if anybody else had trouble with porn and prostitution. Despite a lot of laughter and hooting when the question was read aloud, one man rose and invited whomever had written the note to reach out after the meeting. That man became Liam's sponsor in \u003ca href=\"https://saa-recovery.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sex Addicts Anonymous\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">Hear from one of the foremost thinkers on the subject of porn addiction: \u003cstrong>Alexandra Katehakis\u003c/strong>, founder and clinical director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles:\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221349566\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Every night now, Liam reports by phone. Has he exercised that day? Has he done something fun like go to a movie? Or something shameful? Is he resentful about anything? 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"content": "\u003cp>Few things are more painful than watching people we love harm themselves. Most parents go through some iteration of this experience when their children become teenagers, but some families suffer more than others. One mom in Berkeley, Donna, found herself caught in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with her daughter, Cindy, starting in middle school. (To protect the family, we’ve changed the names.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When did the trouble start? The stories differ, depending on how you define trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of ‘Love in the Digital Age’\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Donna recalls the moment she spotted the first sext on her daughter’s phone, while driving with her two girls in the car. Cindy was 13 at the time, and her younger sister was in the back seat, so Donna didn’t say anything out loud, at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked over. My daughter was in the front seat. She was holding her phone. You know, she kind of scrolled through. But well, my first thought was: Why is there a male torso on my child’s phone? And then I thought to myself: Oh gosh, it’s, you know, this is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘My first thought was: Why is there a male torso on my child’s phone? And then I thought to myself: Oh gosh, it’s, you know, this is happening.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s just the sexting. “I would see sometimes text conversations,” Donna says, “between her and someone I didn’t know, and I assume, actually, that she didn’t know. If I could ever really see the whole gist of a conversation, I would gather that the person on the other side was a boy or man, who eventually would lead the discussion to something sexual, and then it seemed like she would kind of stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Donna Ultimately Realized Was Happening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really wanted attention,” Cindy says. At that time, she adds, “I didn’t really care how people thought of me. Like, I’m going to text this guy a million times until he stops replying, and then I’ll find the next one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy was an anxious kid, and a year into middle school, she found herself socially excluded by a group she calls the Abercrombie Girls, in reference to their focus on fashion. Cindy describes it as a “Mean Girls” situation. “I was always at the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_POt2KlfQ]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Cindy sought out boys, and men, consciously aware they were interested in sex, regardless of what she told her mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy, you know?” Cindy says. “Snap the picture and send it. It takes nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy is hardly an anomaly. Sexting is a common practice among teenagers, and grownups everywhere are struggling to catch up. Some law enforcement agencies treat sexting an under-age girl as a criminal offense, but if the sexter is a teenage boy, that can come off as \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031fztz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavy-handed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna warned her daughters about the fact that photos are forever on the Internet, but Cindy was favoring the bad information she got from girlfriends, who told her guys were unlikely to forward her photos if she had sexual photos of them: a kind of mutually assured destruction pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That turned out to be a naive assumption. But even after Cindy knew better, even after she had been publicly embarrassed, she kept sexting. Even after one of the older guys she was chatting with threatened to come find her, she kept looking for new, strange friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parental Surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna never really stalked her daughter. She openly checked Cindy’s phone once a week in middle school. But Cindy was much more careful about what she shared with her mom, regularly deleting incriminating evidence that could get her grounded or, at the very least, forced to endure a lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy wasn’t a big fan of social media, but Donna checked the feeds of her daughter’s Facebook friends nonetheless, looking for clues about her daughter’s life that Cindy wasn’t choosing to share with her. Donna also installed \u003ca href=\"http://www1.k9webprotection.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K9 Web Protection\u003c/a>, filtering software that blocks sites and then emits a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCXUuUKLxE&feature=youtu.be&t=6m23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loud dog bark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cutting was the first clue that Cindy’s anxiety and depression were overwhelming her. Cindy fell in with a couple of girls at school who were also suffering from depression. They were also cutting themselves, and cutting themselves competitively with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy described her first scars as evidence of an encounter with a cat. That excuse worked only once, and her tolerance grew over time, so she needed to cut more often “to get the same relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look like what they are: razor cuts,” says Donna. “So they’re very thin, and precise — but they can get a little deep. I know, it’s horrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the cutting began, Donna lined up a therapist, but Cindy didn’t take to the woman. She was formal, the kind of therapist who likes to review her notes at the end of a session — with a 13-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t more damaging,” Cindy says now, “but it just wasn’t helpful — and that was a critical time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was before high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more of Cindy’s reflections on middle school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, high school didn’t go as well as we had hoped for her,” Donna says. “She started out strong her freshman year, but by her sophomore year, she had gotten again with a group that was kind of fringe — not exactly motivated in school, and they were smoking a lot of pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy to find,” Cindy says. “Everyone had this unlimited supply. I almost always got it for free in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By sophomore year, Cindy was smoking, by her own estimate, eight or nine “blunts” a day — and then drinking on top of that. There was also a one-month flirtation with cocaine, but that wasn’t her main drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, Cindy was still getting A’s and B’s in school. She was taking care of business. “I was the only kid who went to class of the friends that I was with, ’cause I knew that If I started getting bad grades, my parents would notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are kids who are very combative with their parents,” Donna says. “They’re ‘I hate you, Mom,’ and they’re fighting. We were never like that. She would tug at my heartstrings, versus push me away. We tried to rein her in. ‘You can’t go to this party, and you can’t hang out with so-and-so.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Donna found it hard to lay down the law for any length of time. “You become a jailer, which is not fun,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Kfo8j15BfaTtV778Jwzc55k9CalAykEQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t Donna simply take away Cindy’s phone or Internet access? Cindy answers it best. “She really thought that if she punished me, I’d hurt myself.” Also, the phone was a valuable surveillance device for Donna, a way to keep tabs — however limited — on her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Donna recalls following Cindy via GPS down Telegraph Avenue one Halloween night after dropping her off at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was probably trying to score something,” Donna recalls. “I kept texting, ‘Where are you?’ and she kept telling me, ‘Oh, at this other party,’ and I could see the little dot moving around. I said, ‘You know, I’m just coming to get you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things started to go downhill,” Donna continues. “It just went downhill really fast. I realized, again from looking at her phone, that she was financing her pot use by selling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Donna had tried talk therapy, anti-depressants, dialectical behavior therapy — “a common form of therapy used for kids who cut” — which involved a year of classes for Cindy and Donna in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearwaterclinic.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clearwater Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, nothing they could do in Berkeley seemed to be working. “I feel like, at a certain point, I didn’t know who she was,” Donna says. “Someone who’s using drugs and abusing alcohol, there’s a lot they have to hide and a lot of manipulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy agreed to go to North Carolina for 2½ months to attend what’s called a wilderness therapy program. There, Cindy was separated from everything: her friends, her drugs, her makeup and, of course, her iPhone. Such a dramatic intervention doesn’t always work. Some kids are literally dragged to wilderness school, and the therapy doesn’t take. But Cindy says she loved her experience at \u003ca href=\"http://trailscarolina.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trails \u003c/a>in North Carolina, and would even do it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coming Clean\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of her therapy, Cindy had to write letters home cataloging everything she’d done in the previous years. The letters were shocking to Donna. “I probably shouldn’t have trusted her as much as I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna was genuinely surprised at the level of Cindy’s drinking, despite a couple instances in which she vomited in public, and one time when she blacked out in a public park. A friend carried her to his home and called Donna from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy’s stint at Trails was followed by a therapeutic boarding school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.springridgeacademy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spring Ridge Academy\u003c/a>, in Arizona, before she finished high school in the East Bay. She’s now a freshman at an East Coast university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother and daughter are on good terms these days. “I will never not regret the pain that I caused my mother,” Cindy says. “I always knew that she loved me. 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Cindy describes it as a “Mean Girls” situation. “I was always at the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/W8_POt2KlfQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/W8_POt2KlfQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Cindy sought out boys, and men, consciously aware they were interested in sex, regardless of what she told her mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy, you know?” Cindy says. “Snap the picture and send it. It takes nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy is hardly an anomaly. Sexting is a common practice among teenagers, and grownups everywhere are struggling to catch up. Some law enforcement agencies treat sexting an under-age girl as a criminal offense, but if the sexter is a teenage boy, that can come off as \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031fztz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavy-handed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna warned her daughters about the fact that photos are forever on the Internet, but Cindy was favoring the bad information she got from girlfriends, who told her guys were unlikely to forward her photos if she had sexual photos of them: a kind of mutually assured destruction pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That turned out to be a naive assumption. But even after Cindy knew better, even after she had been publicly embarrassed, she kept sexting. Even after one of the older guys she was chatting with threatened to come find her, she kept looking for new, strange friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parental Surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna never really stalked her daughter. She openly checked Cindy’s phone once a week in middle school. But Cindy was much more careful about what she shared with her mom, regularly deleting incriminating evidence that could get her grounded or, at the very least, forced to endure a lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy wasn’t a big fan of social media, but Donna checked the feeds of her daughter’s Facebook friends nonetheless, looking for clues about her daughter’s life that Cindy wasn’t choosing to share with her. Donna also installed \u003ca href=\"http://www1.k9webprotection.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K9 Web Protection\u003c/a>, filtering software that blocks sites and then emits a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCXUuUKLxE&feature=youtu.be&t=6m23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loud dog bark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cutting was the first clue that Cindy’s anxiety and depression were overwhelming her. Cindy fell in with a couple of girls at school who were also suffering from depression. They were also cutting themselves, and cutting themselves competitively with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy described her first scars as evidence of an encounter with a cat. That excuse worked only once, and her tolerance grew over time, so she needed to cut more often “to get the same relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look like what they are: razor cuts,” says Donna. “So they’re very thin, and precise — but they can get a little deep. I know, it’s horrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the cutting began, Donna lined up a therapist, but Cindy didn’t take to the woman. She was formal, the kind of therapist who likes to review her notes at the end of a session — with a 13-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t more damaging,” Cindy says now, “but it just wasn’t helpful — and that was a critical time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was before high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more of Cindy’s reflections on middle school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”&visual=true&undefined'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, high school didn’t go as well as we had hoped for her,” Donna says. “She started out strong her freshman year, but by her sophomore year, she had gotten again with a group that was kind of fringe — not exactly motivated in school, and they were smoking a lot of pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy to find,” Cindy says. “Everyone had this unlimited supply. I almost always got it for free in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By sophomore year, Cindy was smoking, by her own estimate, eight or nine “blunts” a day — and then drinking on top of that. There was also a one-month flirtation with cocaine, but that wasn’t her main drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, Cindy was still getting A’s and B’s in school. She was taking care of business. “I was the only kid who went to class of the friends that I was with, ’cause I knew that If I started getting bad grades, my parents would notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are kids who are very combative with their parents,” Donna says. “They’re ‘I hate you, Mom,’ and they’re fighting. We were never like that. She would tug at my heartstrings, versus push me away. We tried to rein her in. ‘You can’t go to this party, and you can’t hang out with so-and-so.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Donna found it hard to lay down the law for any length of time. “You become a jailer, which is not fun,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t Donna simply take away Cindy’s phone or Internet access? Cindy answers it best. “She really thought that if she punished me, I’d hurt myself.” Also, the phone was a valuable surveillance device for Donna, a way to keep tabs — however limited — on her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Donna recalls following Cindy via GPS down Telegraph Avenue one Halloween night after dropping her off at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was probably trying to score something,” Donna recalls. “I kept texting, ‘Where are you?’ and she kept telling me, ‘Oh, at this other party,’ and I could see the little dot moving around. I said, ‘You know, I’m just coming to get you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things started to go downhill,” Donna continues. “It just went downhill really fast. I realized, again from looking at her phone, that she was financing her pot use by selling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Donna had tried talk therapy, anti-depressants, dialectical behavior therapy — “a common form of therapy used for kids who cut” — which involved a year of classes for Cindy and Donna in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearwaterclinic.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clearwater Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, nothing they could do in Berkeley seemed to be working. “I feel like, at a certain point, I didn’t know who she was,” Donna says. “Someone who’s using drugs and abusing alcohol, there’s a lot they have to hide and a lot of manipulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy agreed to go to North Carolina for 2½ months to attend what’s called a wilderness therapy program. There, Cindy was separated from everything: her friends, her drugs, her makeup and, of course, her iPhone. 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They said they thought Scott had lied to the community about the number of items weeded out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott initially said he thought 2,200 items had been discarded this year. He later acknowledged that the real number was 39,000, pointing out that in a previous year more than 50,000 items were weeded out. Some also said they were punished for speaking out against the collections management policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of the speakers called for Scott to be either fired or suspended without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Mullan, a former librarian who was a leader in the campaign against the weeding, told Berkeleyside she was “relieved” at the news of Scott’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community is aghast at what happened,” Mullan said. “I hope the library board now can take the reins and find an interim director who understands the staff and the collection while doing a national search.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullan added that she thought two other staffers in collection management should also leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really happy he is gone. He was the wrong man for the job,” said Bob Baty, who retired as the libraries’ head of maintenance in 2008 after 19 years and who now serves on the board of the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He consistently lied to us about the number of books that were pulped, number one,” Baty said. “And number two, he kept saying they were all going to the Friends, and all we got were five boxes out of 39,000 volumes. So he broke trust with the entire staff, and therefore his ability to lead was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Kriss Worthington, who called last week for an independent investigation into the weeding issue, said he still wants to know more about what happened at the libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody else is responsible for the mistreatment of the librarians and inaccurate information, they shouldn’t be off the hook and have him be the sacrificial lamb,” Worthington said. “We need to see what went wrong. Where did the inaccurate information come from. Did it come from him only? From one person to him? From two people to him? Who made the mistakes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second Berkeley library director who has been forced to resign in recent history. Jackie Griffin resigned in 2006 over union-related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Scott was in his position for only about 10 months, he oversaw the creation of a new strategic plan for the library, one that included creating a larger gathering spot for teens in the Central Library. He was concerned about how to balance the needs of the homeless with other patrons and set up a task force to consider the situation. He was also active on social media, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jdscott50/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting regularly\u003c/a> about library events and issues. He is a voracious reader and posted book reviews regularly on \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/321314-jeff-scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodreads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is scheduled to meet next week, at which time it will discuss the details for a new director search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel the role of the director of the Berkeley Public Library is a terrific opportunity, and we look forward to proceeding with that selection,” said Abigail Franklin, chair of the library board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeleyside broke this story on Twitter. Want to get breaking news quickly? Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just under 1,000 people signed \u003ca href=\"http://www.petitions.moveon.org/sign/librarygate-stop-senseless/?source=search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a MoveOn.org\u003c/a> petition calling for Scott’s suspension or removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott took much of the criticism on at \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/08/27/performance-of-berkeleys-library-director-under-fire-at-meeting-of-library-trustees/comment-page-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a special meeting\u003c/a> of the Board of Library Trustees last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many at the meeting complained about what they said was an overly aggressive book-weeding policy, as well as what they perceived to be a hostile working environment at the libraries and a lack of honesty and trust. They said they thought Scott had lied to the community about the number of items weeded out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott initially said he thought 2,200 items had been discarded this year. He later acknowledged that the real number was 39,000, pointing out that in a previous year more than 50,000 items were weeded out. Some also said they were punished for speaking out against the collections management policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of the speakers called for Scott to be either fired or suspended without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Mullan, a former librarian who was a leader in the campaign against the weeding, told Berkeleyside she was “relieved” at the news of Scott’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community is aghast at what happened,” Mullan said. “I hope the library board now can take the reins and find an interim director who understands the staff and the collection while doing a national search.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullan added that she thought two other staffers in collection management should also leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really happy he is gone. He was the wrong man for the job,” said Bob Baty, who retired as the libraries’ head of maintenance in 2008 after 19 years and who now serves on the board of the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He consistently lied to us about the number of books that were pulped, number one,” Baty said. “And number two, he kept saying they were all going to the Friends, and all we got were five boxes out of 39,000 volumes. So he broke trust with the entire staff, and therefore his ability to lead was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Kriss Worthington, who called last week for an independent investigation into the weeding issue, said he still wants to know more about what happened at the libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody else is responsible for the mistreatment of the librarians and inaccurate information, they shouldn’t be off the hook and have him be the sacrificial lamb,” Worthington said. “We need to see what went wrong. Where did the inaccurate information come from. Did it come from him only? From one person to him? From two people to him? Who made the mistakes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second Berkeley library director who has been forced to resign in recent history. Jackie Griffin resigned in 2006 over union-related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Scott was in his position for only about 10 months, he oversaw the creation of a new strategic plan for the library, one that included creating a larger gathering spot for teens in the Central Library. He was concerned about how to balance the needs of the homeless with other patrons and set up a task force to consider the situation. He was also active on social media, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jdscott50/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting regularly\u003c/a> about library events and issues. He is a voracious reader and posted book reviews regularly on \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/321314-jeff-scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodreads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is scheduled to meet next week, at which time it will discuss the details for a new director search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel the role of the director of the Berkeley Public Library is a terrific opportunity, and we look forward to proceeding with that selection,” said Abigail Franklin, chair of the library board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeleyside broke this story on Twitter. Want to get breaking news quickly? Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A 116-band festival probably sounds like Coachella or Lollapalooza. But 59 different stages? For free? Its no wonder the town of Napa is trying to keep \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Napa-Porchfest/198470643510714\" target=\"_blank\">Porchfest\u003c/a> under wraps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basic premise of the Porchfest concept, which was \u003ca href=\"http://www.porchfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\">born in Ithaca, New York\u003c/a> in 2007, is to showcase local music on people’s front porches and yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s proved wildly successful, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.front-porch-ideas-and-more.com/porchfest.html\" target=\"_blank\">dozens of cities\u003c/a> now hold their own Porchfests. But Napa was the first in the western U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first year we all had butterflies in our stomach,” said Rachel Clark, who helped start Napa Porchfest in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220325511\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That morning we’re like ‘What if only 250 people show up?’ It ended up being more like 2,500,”Clark said, as she handed out maps to new arrivals wandering the streets of downtown Napa. Bikes zoomed by, families with strollers were out in force and lawns were dotted with strangers chatting and hopping from band to band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649140\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 466px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10649140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Many of Napa's streets are closed off to cars for the festival.\" width=\"466\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of Napa's streets are closed off to cars for the festival. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, with music ranging from Celtic folk to hip-hop, and everything in between, attendance topped 12,000, despite an intentional lack of promotion outside the area. There’s a concerted effort to keep Porchfest focused on locals. To play here, at least one member of the band must live in Napa County, and even the food trucks have to be local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>it’s a little more relaxing than our usual big shows where we’re in front of thousands of people,” said Izi Holokahi, who sings and plays ukulele for \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BlessedLoveGospelReggaeBand\" target=\"_blank\">Blessed Love Gospel Reggae\u003c/a>, a 10-piece band\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s sweating in the 85-degree heat, minutes after finishing a set out in front of the keyboardist’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649137\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 453px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10649137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Blessed Love Gospel Reggae\" width=\"453\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blessed Love Gospel Reggae \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People here live right down the road from each other,\"said Clark. \"So at least they know now, whenever they walk or drive past this house, 'Hey man! That’s the guy that was in that reggae band!'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who knew that our retired judge [is] an amazing drummer in a band? And our local kindergarten teacher is an awesome vocalist!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is absolutely the best thing this city has done,” said Sheree Solomon, who hosts an annual get-together every year. She and some friends are sitting on lawn chairs in her front yard, sipping wine and watching passers-by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It gets everybody together as a family,\" she said. \"It supports all these local young startups. It’s awesome. …Every city should do this. It’s a family affair.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porchfest also can serve as a springboard for up-and-coming musicians, who need exposure and have limited venues in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great place to come and listen to music, and it doesn’t cost anything. So you can’t beat that,\" said Joe Barreca, who’s watching a band called Powerglide play on the porch of a house that dates from the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10649138 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Sheree Solomon invites friends over each year to sit on the lawn and take in Porchfest.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheree Solomon invites friends over each year to sit on the lawn and take in Porchfest. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The home is being restored by Lauren Ackerman, to become a local \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.com/napalauren/laurens-victorian/\" target=\"_blank\">heritage museum of sorts\u003c/a>. But Ackerman’s plans hit a major speed bump when last year’s earthquake hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the walls fell down in the main part of the house,” she said while giving visitors an impromptu tour. “I was about 45 days from being done and had to basically lock it up and put the key away for about eight to nine months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Porchfest planning committee had been urging Ackerman to participate for several years. \u003ca href=\"http://www.napacountylandmarks.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Napa County Landmarks\u003c/a>, a local nonprofit and the event’s fiscal sponsor, sees live performance as a way to bring the town’s beautiful old houses to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music changes everything,” says the organization's director, Stacey DeShazo. “We want people involved in historic preservation and saving our structures, and seeing these old houses in these great neighborhoods, but seeing it in a different light.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649139\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10649139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Napa Porchfest 2015 attendees check out a band.\" width=\"459\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napa Porchfest 2015 attendees check out a band. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We've done house tours for 30 or 40 years, and we do bicycle tours of historic neighborhoods, we do all kinds of ways,\" says Napa City Councilmember \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofnapa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111&Itemid=1119\" target=\"_blank\">Juliana Inman\u003c/a>, who is also chair of the Porchfest committee. \"And this has by far been the most effective way to get lots of people into our historic neighborhoods and appreciate them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inman has also helped other communities who are trying to start their own Porchfest, including the town of Carmel, Indiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in California, San Francisco’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfporchfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Mission and Noe Valley\u003c/a> neighborhoods held their inaugural Porchfest this year, and the town of Gilroy is \u003ca href=\"http://www.porchfestgilroy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">holding their second one this September. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That’s the guy that was in that reggae band!'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who knew that our retired judge [is] an amazing drummer in a band? And our local kindergarten teacher is an awesome vocalist!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is absolutely the best thing this city has done,” said Sheree Solomon, who hosts an annual get-together every year. She and some friends are sitting on lawn chairs in her front yard, sipping wine and watching passers-by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It gets everybody together as a family,\" she said. \"It supports all these local young startups. It’s awesome. …Every city should do this. It’s a family affair.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porchfest also can serve as a springboard for up-and-coming musicians, who need exposure and have limited venues in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great place to come and listen to music, and it doesn’t cost anything. So you can’t beat that,\" said Joe Barreca, who’s watching a band called Powerglide play on the porch of a house that dates from the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10649138 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Sheree Solomon invites friends over each year to sit on the lawn and take in Porchfest.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheree Solomon invites friends over each year to sit on the lawn and take in Porchfest. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The home is being restored by Lauren Ackerman, to become a local \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.com/napalauren/laurens-victorian/\" target=\"_blank\">heritage museum of sorts\u003c/a>. But Ackerman’s plans hit a major speed bump when last year’s earthquake hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the walls fell down in the main part of the house,” she said while giving visitors an impromptu tour. “I was about 45 days from being done and had to basically lock it up and put the key away for about eight to nine months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Porchfest planning committee had been urging Ackerman to participate for several years. \u003ca href=\"http://www.napacountylandmarks.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Napa County Landmarks\u003c/a>, a local nonprofit and the event’s fiscal sponsor, sees live performance as a way to bring the town’s beautiful old houses to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music changes everything,” says the organization's director, Stacey DeShazo. “We want people involved in historic preservation and saving our structures, and seeing these old houses in these great neighborhoods, but seeing it in a different light.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649139\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10649139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Napa Porchfest 2015 attendees check out a band.\" width=\"459\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napa Porchfest 2015 attendees check out a band. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We've done house tours for 30 or 40 years, and we do bicycle tours of historic neighborhoods, we do all kinds of ways,\" says Napa City Councilmember \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofnapa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111&Itemid=1119\" target=\"_blank\">Juliana Inman\u003c/a>, who is also chair of the Porchfest committee. \"And this has by far been the most effective way to get lots of people into our historic neighborhoods and appreciate them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inman has also helped other communities who are trying to start their own Porchfest, including the town of Carmel, Indiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in California, San Francisco’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfporchfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Mission and Noe Valley\u003c/a> neighborhoods held their inaugural Porchfest this year, and the town of Gilroy is \u003ca href=\"http://www.porchfestgilroy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">holding their second one this September. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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