by Court | Jul 22, 2021
Golden Gate/City Cemetery shown in an 1897 map by Southern Pacific Company/H.S. Crocker Co. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection) You know what I love even more than ghosts? Beer. HAHAH NO THAT’S CEMETERIES. Cemeteries are a gold mine of local history, they tell us...
by Court | Jul 16, 2021
This cemetery is in Crescent City, California, wayyyy up on the North Coast of our state. It’s beautiful and wild up here. The sea has battered this town for centuries now, graveyard included. It’s sun and salt bleached, but a massive tangle of swamp lies just behind...
by Court | Jun 30, 2021
My dearest phantom cold spots: Happy Summer! I’m writing to you guys in between road trips all over California, spending time with family that we didn’t get to see during the pandemic. Travel is happening again, which is awesome but also kind of overwhelming? I am...
by Court | Jun 10, 2021
When I was finishing up this series, I took a trip out to Sonoma and Napa to visit the places Mary Ellen Pleasant lived at the end of her life, and where she was buried. The best part about researching local people is being able to put myself in their actual...
by Court | Jun 9, 2021
My dearest spectral anomalies: HAPPY SUMMER!!! It’s ALMOST ACTUALLY fucking SUMMER because my kids ARE FINALLY OUT OF SCHOOL and this has been A YEAR. I am desperately ready for a vacation and TBH sleeping in for one extra hour and letting them play X-Box and eat...
