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EDITORIAL DIRECTORY

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EDITOR’S NOTE - 22 COVER STORIES Making History with Jimmy Carter - 26

By Marianne Ratcliff A Flag for Jimmy Carter - 32

By Ilona Saari MUSIC & THEATER Ojai Playhouse Restored - 38

By Perry Van Houten The Birdsong of Claire Chase Ojai Music Festival - 72

By Agatha French Crazy Mama - 64

By Mimi Walker CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 80 CULTURE

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A Fireman, a Councilwoman, and Three Writers Walk into a Bookstore: Why Everyone Loves Bart’s Books - 84

By Agatha French FOOD & FARM Weeding as Wellness Practice - 92

By John Fonteyn From Ballet to Bread - 96

By Kerstin Kühn Eating for Earth Day - 104

By Sharon Palmer TRANSFORMATION & HEALING Grief Architect, Alison Magallon - 48

By Erin LaBelle Understanding Krishnamurti - 56

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Unlocking Creativity - 118

By Gregg Stewart

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SPORTS Challenged Athletes - 110

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EDITOR’S NOTE - 22 COVER STORY Jeremy Corbell takes Congress to The Outer Limits - 26 WAR STORIES: PAST AND PRESENT Most Honorable Son - 40 Tent City Refugees 1975 - 60 West Bank Witness -76 ART & CULTURE Dean Martin Golddigger Suzy Cadham - 50 Ojai World Dance Festival - 86 OUTDOORS & SPORTS Sky-Hiking - 70 VISA Soccer - 92 CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 97

WINTER 2024 VOLUME 42 NO. 4

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FOOD & WINE Vegan Holiday Eats - 100 ENVIRONMENT Ojai Climate Whiplash - 106 HOME Is Your Dream Home Factory-Built? - 114

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EDITOR’S NOTE - 20 COVER STORY: Steve Hamhock: House Hog - 26 BIG ISSUES Tending Sage - 36 Rewild Ojai - 44 CULTURE The Casitas Pinstriper - 52 Ah … Fiddlesticks! - 60 ART Ojai Art Center Turns 85 - 68 Ojai Family Photo - 81 CALENDER OF EVENTS 76

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FOOD & WINE Climate Friendly Eating - 90

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SPIRIT Church of the Wild - 97 LOOKING BACK The Pratt House - 106 HOME She Shed Makers - 116

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SUMMER 2024 Volume 42 No. 2 E D I T O R ’S N O T E - 20

COVER STORY: Hammerin’ Hank - 26 BIG ISSUES

UnBroken, the Movie - 44 A R T & C U LT U R E

Hawk Koch - 34 Street Typewriter Poets - 54 Junior Joiners - 70 Serendipity Toys - 118

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Ojai Olive Oil - 62 Local and in Season - 90 FOOD & WINE

Pho for All - 78 Kelpful Sea Vegetables - 84 Ojai Mountain vineyard - 98 C A L E N D E R O F E V E N T S - 104

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Road House, Takin’ the Hits - 110

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SPRING 2024 Volume 42 No. 1

E D I T O R ’S N O T E - 22

COVER STORY: Bryan Brothers at The Ojai Tournament - 28 BIG ISSUES

Common Ground movie - 34 RFK Jr. Stumps in Ojai - 44 Radioactive Rain, Santa Susana Field Lab - 60 LOOKING BACK

Bionic Duo from a Simpler Time - 52 Six Degrees of Krishnamurti - 84

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Mitsuko Uchida at Ojai Music Festival - 72 Calendar - 80 A R T & C U LT U R E

Jacey Clear, Renaissance Man - 94 Haunted Treasures? - 102 FA R M

Totem Biodynamic Ranch - 110 FOOD & WINE

Farmer and the Cook’s Book - 118

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WINTER 2023 Volume 41 No. 4 E D I T O R ’S N O T E - 22

COVER STORY: Laura Dern & Diane Ladd, Honey, Baby, Mine - 28 ART

Pottery, Burt Horowitz - 38 Superpowered DC - 46 C U LT U R E

A Crown Wedding - 66 The Model Pastime - 120

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Man of Sorrows - 56 Demystifying the Hurriquake - 76 F O O D & FA R M

Dharma Farming - 86 SPORTS

Polo Player Extraordinaire - 96 EVENTS

Calendar - 105

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Krotona at a Century - 110

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FALL 2023 Volume 41 No. 3

E D I T O R ’S N O T E - 20 COVER STORY

The House Cash Built - 24 A R T & C U LT U R E

Comic Chronicles of Paula Pugh - 40 Echo Magic Music - 58 Reviving Retro Trailers - 80 BIG ISSUES

Pieces of Ukraine - 48 F O O D & FA R M

The Future is Primitive - 66 Queen of Jam - 74 H E A LT H & T R A N S F O R M AT I O N

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If a Teaching Tree Could Tell - 32 Reins of Hope - 92 Aquãtez Water Release Therapy - 100 O J A I PA S T

Constable Harry Hunt - 108 Watergate Recollections - 122 EVENTS

Calendar - 89

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B I K E H I K E S - 116

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SUMMER 2023 Volume 41 No. 2

EDITOR’S NOTE - 20 COVER STORY

Logan Maxwell Hagege: Visions of the Southwest - 24 COWBOYS PAST AND PRESENT

Ojai Cowboy, Sheb Wooley - 32 Law & Disorder, Ventura’s DA - 40 ART & CULTURE

Rhiannon Giddens - 48

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Stoked Surfboards - 62 Khaled Fouad Photography - 122 FOOD & FARM

Mama Tree Farm -54 Fonteyn’s Fennel Feast - 84

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HEALTH & TRANSFORMATION

Becoming Better Men - 68 Ojai Energetics - 76 OUTDOORS

Taft Gardens - 102 Ojai’s Soil Obsessives - 110 Summer Hikes - 116 EVENTS

Calendar - 90 Ojai Playwrights Conference - 94

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SPRING 2023 Volume 41 No. 1

EDITOR’S NOTE - 20 COVER STORY

Night Heron Farm - 24 TRANSFORMATION

Loevology Retreat - 32 ART & CULTURE

Photographing Our Land - 40 Ojai City Art Tour - 116 Poem: I Met You in April - 129 EDUCATION

Ojai to Afghanistan - 56 Krumpschmidt’s Family Adventure - 72 Lisa Marie Presley’s days in Happy Valley - 80 BIG ISSUES

On Sacred Ground, the Movie - 62 OUTDOORS

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Spring Hikes - 50 The Ojai Tennis Champions - 86 Get it Done Trail Crew - 9

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Tesoro Mio Radicchio - 92 EVENTS

Ojai Earth Day - 108 Calendar - 113 GARDEN

Tomatomania - 122

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WINTER 2022 Volume 40 No. 4

EDITOR’S NOTE - 20 ART & CULTURE

Actor, Jon Bernthal - 24 Lessons from Ben Franklin - 104 OJAI THEN AND NOW

Elephant Life After Rollerskating - 40 OUTDOORS

Winter Snow Hikes - 50 FARM

Growing Ojai Roots - 32 Ventura Brush Goats - 62 The Forager, Steve Sprinkel - 114

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Rôtie’s Bread Mann - 86 Beato Holiday Chocolate - 98 Eating for the Holiday Season - 92

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CALENDAR - 110 HOME

Grounded in Nature, Patrona Textiles - 54

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The Landscape Craft of Pamela Burton - 120 BIG ISSUES

Death Midwife, Tending to Dying - 72 TRANSFORMATION

Horse & Heart Connected - 80

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FALL 2022 Volume 40 No.3 EDITOR’S NOTE - 18 BIG ISSUES

30 Days of Trash - 32 Rewilding the East End - 48 War in Ukraine hits home - 92 ARTS

The Cold War Album by Arthur Grace - 22 The Violin Maker - 56 SPORTS & OUTDOORS

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Mounted Archery - 40 Four Fire Tower Hikes - 66 Nest of Kin - 76

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CALENDAR - 42 CULTURE

Well Noted - 86 FOOD & HEALTH

Eating for the Season - 101 Marche Gourmet - 106

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The Forager - 114

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The House on Hermitage - 120

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SUMMER 2022 Volume 40 No.2

EDITOR’S NOTE - 18 BIG ISSUES Mind of War - J. Krishnamurti - 56

OUTDOORS Shovels and Sagebrush - 22 Four Far-Flung Adventures - 66

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CULTURE A Cut Above the Rest - 72 Oomph Inc: Rethinking the Internet - 86

CALENDAR - 112 FARM Flower Farmers of Frog Creek - 40 Studio to Farm Stand - 78

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ARTS Modern Opera in Ojai - 32 The Art of Mary Neville - 48 Downtown Art Tour - 114

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FOOD & HEALTH Yoga - Jennifer Pastiloff - 120 Eating for the Season - 100

OJAI PAST Resident Racoon - 94 The Manson Girl - 106

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SPRING 2022 Volume 40 No.1 EDITOR’S NOTE - 14 BIG ISSUES ON FILM

The Seeds of Vandana Shiva - 18 Revolution Generation - 56 CULTURE

Zavier & Boop - 38 Jes Maharry - 48 OUTDOORS

Reborn in the Wild: Rick Ridgeway - 28 Life with Horses - 64 Skate Ojai - 82

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Australian Natives - 104 Spring Hikes - 124 HUMOR

The Forager - 69 FOOD AND HEALTH

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Earthtrine Farm - 74 Dining & Tasting - 73 Medicinal Herbs - 90 Mindfulness & Healing Directory - 97 Chakra Chai - 98 OJAI PAST

A Chumash Chapter - 114 REAL ESTATE - 120

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Volume 39 No.4 EDITOR’S NOTE - 14 COVER STORY

Literary Omnivore - Bart’s Books - 18 CULTURE

Easing Their Pain-Dwier Brown - 26 Justin Baldoni, Man Enough for Ojai - 42 Turn! Turn! Turn! - Chris Hillman - 78 Artists & Galleries Directory - 101

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The Forager - 68

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Spelunking - Look Back in Ojai - 126 ST YLE

Punk Yogi - 52 EVENTS CALENDAR -102 OJAI PAST

Mr Pittman, 20th Century Horseman - 86

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Captured - Ojai’s Prisoner of War Veterans - 96 FOOD AND DRINK

Come for Kale - Community Farmers’ Market - 6 Eating with the Season Chef Robin Goldstein - 76 Dining & Tasting Directory - 72 TRANSFORMATION & HEALTH

Meditation Mount - 108 Mindfulness & Healing Directory - 107 OUTDOORS

Fall Color Hikes - 36 REAL ESTATE - 116

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SUMMER 2021 Volume 39 No.3 EDITOR’S NOTE - 14 COVER STORY

Ojai Music Festival Turns 75 - 18 ST YLE

Canyon Kids - 48 OUTDOORS

Mule Trains Reopen the Trail - 26 Ojai’s View, Beyond the Coastal Range - 34 Far-flung Summer Hikes - 44

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The Art of Jeffrey Lancaster - 54 Artists & Galleries - 62 The Way of Story - 63 That MOTown Feeling - 66 Barefoot in Ojai - 105 Events Calendar - 72

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Centennial City - 78 Too Late to be Busted - 142 FOOD AND DRINK

Seafresh - 87 Eating with the Season - 90 Mandala - 94 Dining & Tasting - 100 BIG ISSUES

Catching Carbon with a Goddess - 120 Soil Cyclers - 128 HEALTH AND FITNESS

Mindfulness & Healing - 110 Disc Golf - 112 The Goat Walk - 136 REAL ESTATE - 132

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SPRING 2021 Volume 39 No.2 EDITOR’S NOTE - 14 ST YLE

Cover story: Ride or Dye - 18 Homestyle Ojai- 28 BIG ISSUES

Wild in the Wilderness - 36 Heroes with Cables, Search and Rescue - 62 ART & CULTURE

Mr. Willis Goes to Washington - 44 Impressed by Life, the Art of Linda Taylor - 54 Artists & Gallery Directory - 58

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Rock-less Roll, a COVID Concerto - 72 Calendar - 77 FOOD AND DRINK

Eating with the Season - 86 Dining & Tasting - 80 HEALTH AND FITNESS

Rose Valley Hikes - 92 Living Sane, Aubrey Balkind - 96 Ojai Goat Yoga -104 Mindfulness & Healing Directory - 111

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Unearthing Ojai - 112 Look Back in Ojai: Memorable Trees - 122 44 Years in a Shoebox - 128 Architect Paul Revere Williams - 134 REAL ESTATE - 131

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FALL 2020 VOLUME 38 No.3

EDITOR’S NOTE - 12 ARTS & CULTURE

Non-essential Art - 24 Weddings Reimagined - 66 Artisan Parfumes - 30 Artists & Galleries Directory - 27 BIG ISSUES

Ojai’s Lorax, Alasdair Coyne - 16 Cover story: Kiss the Ground Released - 58 FOOD & DRINK

Bonito Coffee Roasters - 36 Eating with the Season - 44 Art in a Bottle, Majestic Oak Winery - 48 Dining & Tasting Directory - 54

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Extraterrestrial Ambassador Mark Simms - 74

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Deborah King, Your Heart Never Lies - 86 HEALTH

Making Friends with your Microbiome - 92 Mindfulness & Healing Directory - 97 EVENTS - Calendar - 72 HISTORY

Celebrating Ojai Suffrage - 100 The Great Walls of Ojai - 110 Look Back in Ojai - 127

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Lonely Heart Will Travel - 80 OUTDOORS

Hiking Trails for the Fall - 120 REAL ESTATE - 115

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ARTS & CULTURE

Faces of Silver - Photography of Ben Winkler - 18 Artists and Galleries Directory - 25

SHOPPING

Cattywampus Crafts - 28

FOOD & DRINK Seven Women Chefs - 36 Small On Purpose, Ojai Valley Brewery - 48 Dining & Tasting Directory - 52

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Parenting Without Power Struggles - 56

MUSIC

Cover Story -The Discoteca of Perla Batalla - 62 Mattius Pintcher Directs the 2020 Ojai Music Festival - 70

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Ojai Calendar - 76

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Becoming Nobody - 82 Sonic Butterfly - 92 Rikka’s Adventures in Oneness - 100 Mindfulness & Healing Directory - 104

BIG ISSUES Four-Legged Firefighters A Shepherdess Comes to Town - 108 The Kale is Ready ...The Kale is Ready!

Regenerative Agrigiculture - 116

PAST & PRESENT

History’s First Draft - The Story of Ojai’s Newspaper - 159

Look Back in Ojai - Old Gray - 159

OUTSIDE

A Bird-friendly Garden - 136 Perry’s Trails, Spring Flower Hikes - 148 Classic Spring Trails - 154

REAL ESTATE - 141

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