A Big Sur Podcast

Breakfast at Deetjen's with Shelley Newell
(episode is unexpurgated and approved by the authority)

I so thoroughly enjoyed this episode! Her ability to recall so many characters and stories through the years in such vivid detail was incredible. I loved hearing all of the background sounds over breakfast at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn! / Stephanie Ann Riggs

Places etc.:
Mennonites
Darwin
The Big Share
Sorta Gorda
Nepenthe
River Inn
The Thought Dial by Sydney Omarr
Sandy Ingerman 'Medicine for The Earth
The Way of The Shaman by Michael Harner
The Stone House

People:
Norman Stonecrow
Jaime Morton
Jaime DeAngulo
Crazy Richard
Emilia Newell
Gordon Newell
Hal Newell
Abe Newell
Robin Burnside
Carol Doda
Patrick Cassidy
Eric Jensen
Wally Hinkle (sp?)
Andy Gagarin
Ed Gardien
Helmuth Deetjen
Howard Welch
The Hopkins family
Bill and Lietz
Ed Jones
Claire Swick / Linus Pauling
Gregory Bateson
Giles Healey
Kenny McLeod
Robert Willett
Robert and Beth Withrow
Kenny Comello 
Susan Pierce
Robert Stonesipher (sp?)
Carlos Sauer
Arch Garner (sp?)
Robinson Jeffers
Betty Sue Walters
Odile Segal
David Whitney
Sandy Justice
Kay Short
Jim Hunolt
Linda Padilla
Lindsay Romanov
Nico Georis
Neil R

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We lost Iguana John Thursday morning, May 23. 
He died from heart failure at the Community Hospital. 

John was born John Carlin in January of 1956. Many of us here in Big Sur have been touched by John. He did indeed have an Iguana on his shoulder for many years. Both his parents were deaf so John signed fluent ALS (American sign language). He lived for many years at Kay Shorts house in Coastlands, he also lived on Pfeiffer Ridge and for the past several years he was the caretaker at the Henry Miller Library. Seeing him sign with deaf guests at the library is unforgettable. He came to life with the love of 'speaking' in the way he knew so well. We love John and we miss him.

John leaves behind his sister Sheryl Pierce, his brother Paul Carlin, and his niece Nicole Burnett.

At the time of writing this there's no plan yet for a memorial gathering. If and when that happens it will be announced on Big Sur local social media sites.

The audio you hear is John and Magnus driving to the hospital at a previous occasion.

/Magnus

PS.
John lived in his van for the past 12 years or so. He was a war veteran, a short stint in Vietnam. He had little Buddha’s and prayer flags placed inside his van in several places. He thought of a spiritual realm through the teachings of the Buddha.

Portrait of John by Dan Bern

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Some of the people and places we touch on:

Jeff Norman
Peter Cummings
Gary Breschini
Trudy Haversat
Terry Jones
Alfred Kroeber
J.P. Harrington

The Rat Creek Fire
Fort Hunter Liggett

Butterflies in Big Sur

Big Sur Watersheds Fair
Watershed as an idea/concept

CB-handles:
The Green Pea
The Hook
Red Tail
Sticky Wicket

Big Sur thirty years from now

THANK YOU DAVE!

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Where to find the best weather forecast and why it is always right.
What about the Big Sur weather?
Will we survive the upcoming weather?
Plus many more questions answered by:
Author and Earth Scientist William Selby!
www.rediscoveringthegoldenstate.com

>>>>>>>>>>

National Weather Service
Bjorn Lomborg

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Easterine Kire
Nagaland
Sky is My Father by Easterine Kire
Naga Voices from the War, a presentation by Easterine Kire
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Early impressions of Nagaland / short video
Talking to you from a rooftop in Viswema / short video
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Languages disappearing
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Writers we mention:
Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
Ngugi wa Thiongo, Nigeria
Amos Tutuola, Nigeria (YORUBA)
Hugh MacLennan, Canada
Sigrid Undset, Norway
Karin Fossum, Norway
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Thank you Easterine!

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An unusual episode recorded in Dibrugarh, Shiyong and Mokokchung. Town and villages in NE India.

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Kerri Frangioso / Rizzo Lab.
Kerri Frangioso / UC Davis
Plant Pathology / Davis
Sudden Oak Death Task Force
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The Jade Festival
Big Creek Reserve
White Stag
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Sudden Oak Blitz, April 29th

Essalen Tribe 

Soberanes Fire

Telephone Landline

Satellite

the ‘Hoist’

280 plots! 

Prudoe Bay

Costa Rica

Food supplies

Fire prevention

Gardening

Water and gravity

Pampas

Invasive Species

LUP

Madrones excude sap and its yummy!

Peacocks!

Santa Lucia Fir

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I have Magnus Norell and Ricki Neuman, both from Sweden,  with me for this episode. We are talking about what is going on in Israel and Gaza.

Magnus Norell
Ricki Neuman

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I mention:
Raja Shehadeh. 
Yossi Klein Halevi
(We carry titles by both Shehadeh and Halevi at the Library)
Sderot

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A conversation with the author Chad Hanson, PhD

The short musical intro is: CANYON live at Nepenthe’s Halloween Bal Masqué 2002.

Important links for further information:

The John Muir Project
Big Sur Fire
Fire Adapted Big Sur
Fire in Paradise, PBS, Frontline

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To Mom & Pop, who brought me up to believe I could become anything.
 I don’t think they meant a snake biologist. But here we are... / E. Taylor

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A conversation with Dr Emily Taylor about snakes and her upcoming book:
California Snakes & How To Find Them.

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Professor of Biological Sciences
Interim Associate Dean, Bailey College of Science and Mathematics
Director, Physiological Ecology of Reptiles Laboratory
www.EmilyTaylorScience.com
How to be a Herpetologist

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