A Wedding Sampler
June, 1963—A red brick Unitarian church in Los Angeles. The flavor: Kahlil Gibran. Stand together...
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Judy Bebelaar
Shades of Summer
The evocative sound of “summer” means different things to different people, from sticky county fairs to lazy afternoons by a lake to fog-filled coastal mornings. In our annual summer essay issue, seven East Bay writers offer work inspired by our “31 Flavors” prompt. Pour yourself a glass of lemonade, curl up in an easy chair, and let yourself relax into the sensual details of the season—not just the flavors, but the sights, sounds, and smells…and the way it gets under your skin.
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And Then They Were Gone
WEB EXCLUSIVE: An except from Judy Bebelaar and Ron Cabral’s book And Then They Were Gone: Children of the Peoples Temple, San Francisco to Jonestown. On the 30th anniversary of the massacre at Jonestown, Bebelaar presents a slice of life from Opportunity High in San Francisco, where she was a teacher and counselor. Many of her students were Peoples Temple teens who joined their families in Jonestown and never came home.
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