TWAIN PIECES FROM SAN FRANCISCO
From Richard Reineccius
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From: The Bay Citizen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:03 AM
 
Daily Newsletter - The Bay Citizen (brand new online pub)

Ansel Adams, Mark Twain and Hyatt Workers

In the ongoing mystery of who shot a bunch of Yosemite photos, The Bay Citizen's Reyhan Harmanci offers the latest chapter, as two new contenders claim they are the shooters.

And in a special celebration of the release of Mark Twain's autobiography, The Bay Citizen offers an array of coverage, including a blog by Gary Kamiya who is reading it.


Mark Twain
Mark Twain, Bay Area Man About Town

1: A primer on Twain's San Francisco, as his autobiography hits stores
Citizen Twain

(A few good SF Library photos of places Twain lived and hung out)

2: Gary Kamiya reads Mark Twain' autobiography - so you don't have to
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Also, The San Francisco Chronicle, for which Clemens wrote when it was still called The Dramatic Chronicle (basically a live theatre program insert with tomorrow's headline news) has a 1-1/2 page cover story by Michael Shelden on "the book" in the Sunday Books supplement. - [WWW.SFGATE.COM/BOOKS] Too short. Same applies to the reduced Books Section (F - 8 tabloid size pages)

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---BONUS ITEM OF INTEREST---
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams or Not? Yosemite Photos Dispute Thickens
Lone Pine On Sentinel Dome, Yosemite, 1923

In the beginning, there was just Rick Norsigian, a California man who announced in July that he believed he had purchased “lost negatives” of Ansel Adams for $45 at a garage sale. His art dealer put the value of the find at $200 million ...