Richard Burrill
August 26th, 2011
Show #176 Recorded 7/29/11 Aired 8/26/11
Ishi's Untold Story: A Biography of the Last of His Band of Yahi Indians in North America
On August 28, 1911, the "last Wild Indian in North America" was captured near Oroville, California. Richard Burrill tells the story of this man's life before he became part of the white man's world.
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Charles Rouse
August 19th, 2011
Show #175 Recorded 3/18/11 Aired 8/19/11
Two Years at Occidental College in the Late Sixties
Corning Resident Charles Rouse finished a degree in philosophy at Occidental College, a private liberal arts college in southern California where a young Barack Obama was later a student. The author describes what it was like to be a college student in the 1960s.
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Joan Brock
August 12th, 2011
Show #174 Recorded 7/22/11 Aired 8/12/11
My Dear, Dear Rigmor
In this book Gridley resident Joan Brock published letters written by her Danish-born grandmother Helga during World War II. Letters from the United States couldn't reach Helga's family in Denmark, but she continued to write throughout the war describing what she and family members were going through on the home front in California.
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Mike Paull
August 5th, 2011
Show #173 Recorded 5/27/11 Aired 8/6/11
Tales from the Sky Kitchen Cafe
Chico resident and retired dentist Mike Paull learned to fly and for 20 years had lunch at a small airport diner in San Carlos, California. His book is a collection of some of the hundreds of stories he heard from the pilots who gathered there.
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