Column: Artist makes repairs to Millard Sheets mural in Redlands

Brian Worley is in Redlands this week, cleaning and repairing a Millard Sheets mural on a former Home Savings there. Worley was the subject of a recent column as he labored over a 41-foot Sheets mural that had been removed from a Santa Monica bank and was in pieces on the floor of a Claremont building. Here he was at a mural that is in place on the exterior of a building and is going to stay that way. That’s the subject of my Wednesday column.

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Column: California had slaves too, historian says

I attended a talk in Redlands by historian Kevin Waite, author of “West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire,” who explained the little-known story of how slavery and the South had a hold on California in the pre-Civil War era. I write about that as well as about a pride flag debate and a misspelled highway sign in Friday’s all-Redlands column.

As a side note, for Friday’s column, to be written Thursday morning and early afternoon after taking Wednesday off, I was planning to rely on a partial draft of a column from a couple of weeks ago. But it was going to need a lot of work. Meanwhile, I had gone to the Redlands talk as much out of personal interest as professional and took only a few notes (and a couple of photos, just in case).

Sitting down at my computer Thursday morning, it struck me that it would be simpler to write a straightforward column from scratch out of these available materials than to rework this draft. Plus, how often do I write about Redlands, where we have a daily newspaper? So, I cranked out a column over the next four hours, and the partial draft is saved for another day.

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Column: Redlands man reflects on working for Jimmy Carter

Journalist James Fallows was Carter’s head speechwriter from 1977-78. When the former president entered hospice care a month ago, I soon thought of the Redlands native, who’s had more extensive contact with Carter than anyone else from the Inland Empire. He spoke about his former boss on Thursday by phone from Washington, D.C., for my Sunday column.

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Column: Asistencia gets assist from Redlands Conservancy

Are you aware of the Asistencia in Redlands? It was a distant outpost of Mission San Gabriel in the early 19th century but came and went in the wink of an eye. The site was rebuilt in 1937 and, after nearly a century in the county’s hands, was given to a nonprofit in 2018. I visit, learn the slightly comical history of the site and share the results in my Wednesday column.

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