Day: August 18, 1994

Bixby Canyon

If you’ve ever driven on the Pacific Coast Highway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, you’ve seen Big Sur, the dramatic series of dark cliffs, deep canyons and plunging peaks that form the California coastline south of the Bay Area.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti


Born March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York, Lawrence Ferlinghetti earned a doctoral degree in poetry at the Sorbonne in Paris with a dissertation entitled ‘The City as Symbol in Modern Poetry: In Search of a Metropolitan Tradition’. In fact he was about to become part of a metropolitan tradition … Read the rest

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