From Bob Vickrey
Lionel was what many of us in the book trade often referred to as a true “bookman”– ONE word please!– a writer or book lover who was truly committed to the written word. That reference was used sparingly by most of us because we have only been privileged to meet a handful of them in our lifetime.
For me personally, Lionel was in the exclusive company of Dave Dutton, of Dutton’s Books in North Hollywood, and Norman Berg, a Southern book rep from Atlanta who counseled authors like Margaret Mitchell and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
I consider myself lucky to have been included among the distinguished contributors for Boryana Books for the last decade. I would hope we could somehow continue Lionel’s legacy with this website, but certainly understand the difficult logistics in doing so.
Rest in Peace, my friend.
Bob Vickrey
Bob Vickrey, a regular contributor to Boryanabooks.com, is a longtime Palisadian whose columns appear in several Southwestern newspapers including the Houston Chronicle and is a member of the Board of Contributors for the Waco Tribune-Herald. His “lunch club” series ran for almost four years in the Palisades News.
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Honey on the road to San Francisco with some of the Spanish explorers
NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND
By Honey van Blossom
(Honey is a Belgian Marxist former strip-tease artiste)
"Cities of the Golden Gate," Raymond Dabb Yelland, 1893. Most illustrations can be enlarged by clicking on them.
Prologue to the story of the Spanish exploration and settlement of California
Seasonal migrations of animals now extinct in California probably created the roads the native people used before the Spanish land exploration of California. “The heyday of giant mammals in North America was the middle and late Pleistocene, an epoch that started 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, around the time the Earth was thawing out from the Ice Age. The gigantic beasts, which migrated from Asia across a now-vanished land bridge called Beringia, are known as Rancholabrean megafauna, after the famous La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles — the graveyard of thousands of saber-toothed tigers, giant bison and other extinct animals.”[1]
The seasonal migrations of the large mammals may have created the substantial roads used by the indigenous people after their arrival.[2]
Paul S. Martin and Richard G. Klein argue that Paleoindian over-hunting led to the extinction of the megafauna.[3] Others argue that climate change was responsible for mammoth and mastodon extinctions. As the last major glaciation ended around 12,000 years ago, climate warmed too quickly for the megafauna to adapt.
