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June 2026 Stormy Weather – the Great Flood of 1938 The rumblings about an El Niño across climate forecast circles were confirmed by a NOAA...

May 20, 2026   Marilyn Monroe June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962   Marilyn Monroe lived in Hawthorne for the first seven years of...

December 25, 2025   The Nightmare After Christmas Lately, I’ve been having this recurring bad dream: after Christmas, everyone starts putting their old plastic trees...

November 11, 2025 The Twilight Zone Who needs a billionaire’s ride in a dinky little space capsule? We’re on a much larger spacecraft (2.5 million...

“Dark Stories” When all the light had gone from the sky, our ancestors gathered in the caves or beneath the heavy, overhanging rock, the fires...

August 16, 2025 August — the middle of summer — that is, the way summer used to be. Kids were out of school (mostly); activities...

This month we observed the anniversary of the birth of our nation. The day we have chosen is not the anniversary of the actual establishment...

“Orange Empire” While Orange, CA got there about about 32 years before Hawthorne had a chance of being associated with the iconic fruit of Southern...

April 15, 2025 “Old School” Looking out from the tree-shaded Park onto busy Prairie Avenue, the building named to commemorate Jim Thorpe on February 23,...

February 4, 2025 (clucking): “I feel an article coming on” “What’s that got to do with the price of eggs?” There’s no way to ignore...

December   “Deep in December, it’s nice to remember                                 ...

Please . . .  🎵 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! The full moon of November is commonly called the Snow Moon...