Special summer projects
Insider's Guide on where to run across Bigfoot?
The Times-Standard has a couple of fun projects in the works for this summer, and we’re inviting our readers to be a part of them.
The first is a special edition of “North Coast 101: An Insider’s Guide.” The concept is to gather together many of the most enjoyable things to do here behind the Redwood Curtain. The goal: Let visitors and newcomers know about the special things that are often only known to long-time residents.
The guide will include things both outdoors (most beautiful shore or mountain vistas, or where to find the best wildlife viewing, wildflowers or day hikes) and indoors (art galleries, historical sites, memorable architecture, unique window-shopping).
And how about the festivals, the ocean recreation, how to go fishing for salmon and where to find fresh Dungeness crab? Not to mention the unusual local traditions, such as Bigfoot.
We’ll be asking prominent local citizens, Times-Standard staff, and especially you, the readers, for their favorite things to do or see.
Start by e-mailing me YOUR “insider’s tip” to editor@times-standard.com, or via snail mail to Rich Somerville, Insider’s Guide, Times-Standard, PO Box 3580, Eureka, CA 95502. Tell me where it is, when it’s happening or how to find it, so we can add a photo to your tip. Better yet, send us your own photo!
The other project in which we’re inviting reader’s to participate is a special publication to help Arcata celebrate its 150th anniversary as an official city.
Founded by the Union Company in the mid-1800s to provision miners during the gold rush, Arcata has a long and colorful history, and readers can help by sharing their stories and photos of Arcata from years past.
We’ve already started to gather contributions for this special section, which will complement all the activities taking place in Arcata this sesquicentennial year.
e-mail your stories and photos to arcatas150@times-standard.com, or write to Times-Standard, Boxholder 150, PO Box 3580, Eureka, CA 95502-3580. We’ll be glad to send the photos back; just tell us where.
About 15 years ago, when I worked in Hawaii, the newspaper did a special project on the past and present of the islands’ environmental. Participants included not only experts such as historians and scientists, but schoolchildren who shared their drawings of Hawaii, and artists who contributed their works. The Insider’s Guide and Arcata’s 150th will be just as much fun and informative.
We’ll be spreading the word more widely about these projects in the weeks to come, in hopes that as many people as possible will join us in sharing the reasons why we love living here. Contributors will get full credit, of course.