“How Mono Boomed During the Great Depression” On Monday, August 5, author David Carle, will present “How Mono Boomed During the Great Depression “ at the monthly Mono Basin Historical Society meeting. A potluck dinner and business meeting begins at 6 PM at the Lee Vining Community Center; the program at 7 PM. While the […]
Press release The annual meeting of the non-profit Friends of the Eastern California Museum on Saturday, March 9, will feature a presentation by local historian David Carle discussing his latest book, “Putting California on the Map: Von Schmidt’s Lines,” a biography of Allexey W. Von Schmidt. One of most famous “lines” created by von Schmidt […]
Press release Local author David Carle’s new book is PUTTING CALIFORNIA ON THE MAP: VON SCHMIDT’S LINES, the biography of Allexey W. von Schmidt, who was a ’49er, surveyor and civil engineer. Von Schmidt was the first government surveyor to work in the Eastern Sierra. Before there were any mines or homesteads, in 1855 he […]
“Eastern Sierra Water: Historic Choices that Shaped California” at Historical Society Meeting April 11 Press release Author David Carle will present a colorful slide talk, “Eastern Sierra Water: Historic Choices that Shaped California,” at the Monday, April 11 meeting of the Mono Basin Historical Society. The local water history is part of the statewide focus […]
“From city halls to county courthouses, from the State house to the White House – bureaucrats control our lives. Public servants who often try to become our masters. People whose salaries we pay, but what goods and services do we get? On Sierra Wave’s Bureaucrat Beat, we’ll report what they’re up to.” That’s the Bureaucrat […]
Hello, My new book for elementary school children (4th grade and up) is titled MY VISIT TO MONO LAKE, by Monica Jones with David Carle. The voice of 9-year-old Monica Jones was chosen to explain what she learned from rangers at Mono Lake about its salty water, tufa towers, aquatic life and birds, volcanoes, the […]
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