In partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts, the nonprofit Community Arts Partnership (CAP) of Tompkins County helps fund programs that provide county residents and their children with access to programs designed to develop a deeper artistic eye or even a passion for literature. They recently disbursed funds from the State Arts […]
Samantha Jayne Allen won the Tony Hillerman Prize for her 2019 debut novel, Pay Dirt Road. Hillerman, not Native American, grew up among American Indians in Oklahoma and published 18 novels featuring Navajo police officers Joe Longhorn and Jim Chee. These books, particularly “Skinwalkers,” “The Blessing Way” and “A Thief of Time,” were award-winning and […]
Samantha Jayne Allen won the Tony Hillerman Prize for her 2019 debut novel, Pay Dirt Road. Hillerman, not Native American, grew up among American Indians in Oklahoma and published 18 novels featuring Navajo police officers Joe Longhorn and Jim Chee. These books, particularly “Skinwalkers,” “The Blessing Way” and “A Thief of Time,” were award-winning and […]
Eating at the Ventura County Fair: Our reporter tries to eat everything Ventura County Star reporter Tom Kisken eats his way through the Ventura County Fair on Thursday. The line stretched along much of the Ventura County Fair’s Main Street, winding past the pig races, Uncle Leo’s Barn, a food court and two acrobats who […]
