By Patrick Whitehurst The school offered a spectacular view of Monterey Bay, just a bike ride away, though it might as well have been washing the shoreline of another world. As a kid on the coast I rarely made it to the sandy shoreline. I knew the alleys and back streets of Seaside. And I knew which streets to avoid. Broadway stretched from Martin...
By Patrick Whitehurst Whether it comes as a gift for the holidays or just a gift to yourself, your heritage is worth knowing, if just to explain why you prefer cold, rainy days over those sweltering summer ones. Could be that, genetically, you’re from a place with more ice than grass.Born of Irish ancestry, McElwee to be exact, I changed my...
