In early 2011, I published an OEN article titled "Family Values in Concord, CA, in 1972" and it's still one of my all-time faves. So I've spruced it up a little with a relatively new picture from Flickr Commons, because, you know our Occupy Movement notwithstanding, SOME things never change.::::::::

Family Values (2007), by Romel Jacinto at Flickr Commons
The first paragraph of the article is: "The Caldecott Tunnel bores through the hills separating Oakland from Concord, Walnut Creek, and Pleasant Hill, three little boom-towns in 1971 on their way to being the San Francisco Bay Area's fastest-sprouting white-flight suburbs. I worked as a computer programmer in Martinez, another town close by but far less booming, and I shared a rented house with a young family in Concord for several months in 1971 and 1972."
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest (
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