Los Angeles Alligator Farm, Author at

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Los Angeles Alligator Farm

The Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907.) From 1907 until its relocation in 1953, the area of Lincoln Heights was home to what the Los Angeles Times dubbed “the city’s most exotic residents”--a thousand-strong collection of alligators that welcomed visitors every day of the year to see, pose with, and even ride them. Alligator postcard (1910s)from Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. From Public Domain Review

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When it comes to revelation (and other poems)

I’ll bet you’d be//
as amazed as I at a stingray skeleton,/
cartilaginous and regal.

Poetry

Galactic Collisions, Quiet Acres on Mars

He took off his L.L. Bean packable hat, leaned backward, and pointed straight up as if indicating something beyond either vision or imagination–possibly just some passing satellite.

Fiction

Mrs. Juhle

Her feet were cold, even in her sheepskin lined slippers, but they had been that way since the last of October.

Nonfiction