Captain Midnight and the California Drea
Captain Midnight and the California Drea

Author: Dayton Lummis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-10

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0595371868

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CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM is an impressionistic journey of more than 50 years of extremely uneven and often strangely disconnected experiences in California. It stretches from the author's father's hardscrabble ranch in the remote mountains above Los Angeles, through ups and downs in an always-unpredictable California, ending, more or less, at a lonely and primitive ranch in the desert. The book is filled with unique characters, bizarre situations, and views of an always changing and, the author would charge, deteriorating California. From city streets to quiet rural areas, the author seems to have been aware of an ominous cloud filled with unease hovering over the Golden State. In this book he chronicles his drift of over 50 years in the shadow of this cloud, the California dream dim and elusive. Real, but only a dream...

Clippings From the Vine
Clippings From the Vine

Author: Dayton Lummis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-03

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 1440124841

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CLIPPINGS FROM THE VINE consists of selections from the author's seven published books, and concludes with a series of contemporary personal essays, observations and opinions as we enter the Obama Era of hopefully positive change. Ranging from Coast to Coast, all over the Inter-mountain West, and covering a period of almost sixty years, the author deftly chronicles his experiences and the characters he has encountered (such as desert rat "Mr. James," featured on the cover). He does so with wit, insight and frequent discontent. These selections can be read as a cross section of a greatly changing America. Whether for the best or not is always on the author's mind. Clippings From The Vine is "solid America," of a type we shall see little or any of in the future "instant media society." And, the author asks you not to judge him, until you've walked the streets of Victor, Colorado...

When Earl Was King Neptune
When Earl Was King Neptune

Author: Dayton Lummis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006-08

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0595405703

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WHEN EARL WAS KING NEPTUNE is a keenly insightful account of the author's family, and of his personal experiences, observations and intersections with people, places and events in the last half of the 20th century in the Northeast portion of the United States. His story is told with great interpretative skill, wit and occasional humor and at times considerable cynicism. Part history, sociology and biography, the people, places and events, along with the author's sharp personal observations, that make up When Earl Was King Neptune, will stay with the reader long after the book is finished and put aside. They are of the life and mind before cyberspace took control

Ramblin' Bob
Ramblin' Bob

Author: Dayton Lummis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781475905830

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The stage and film actor Peter Holden (Parkhurst) has called Dayton Lummis a cosmic town crier. Indeed, that he is, and more. This latest volume, Ramblin Bob, will reveal that. Read it! The California social critic Tom Englezos said of Lummiss previous collection of acerbic thoughts and often politically incorrect observations: I thoroughlyand absolutelyenjoyed NOTES. I was informed, andoftenoutraged! Great stuff. Damn! I hope you have more coming. A lot more! Ramblin Bob is more. And still more

He Caught the Westbound
He Caught the Westbound

Author: Dayton Lummis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2017-04-19

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1532020562

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He caught the westbound is an old American hobo expression for someone who has departed from this life. In the case of this book it is employed to be symbolic of a passing American way of life and the people who created that. We live in troubled times, and the author often uncomfortably reminds us so. Yet positive travel experiences relieve the pessimism wherein the author says, It could be worse. But not much . . .

Not Wanted
Not Wanted

Author: Dayton Lummis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1440179719

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In March 1976 five members of the family of State Department employee William Bradford Bishop, Jr., were found slain in a shallow grave in rural eastern North Carolina. It was determined that the murders had been committed in the family home in suburban Washington, D.C. Bishop was missing, and the authorities quickly named him the one and only suspect in the brutal and seemingly motiveless crimes. The family station wagon was found abandoned at the western side of Great Smoky National Park. Bishop vanished and since that time has allegedly been an international fugitive. The author, Bishop's roommate senior year at Yale University, has been haunted by this case and its unanswered questions for many years. In this challenging book he puts forth some interesting theories as to what might have happened.

California Pop
California Pop

Author: Dorian MacDougall

Publisher: Dorian MacDougall

Published: 2019-01-27

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1734483415

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In 1542, Spanish explorers landed upon the shores of Southern California expecting to find a terrestrial paradise and instead, found only a burnt-over desert. But during a four-hundred-year-long metamorphosis carried out by thousands of dissimilar individuals of far-flung imagination and fixed purpose, Southern California was transformed into the nation's most promised land-a tangible symbol of all the best life had to offer in mid-twentieth-century America. And at that glorious pinnacle of middle-class, suburban grace, it would remain no more than twenty years. But to this very day, it is those few years that continue to define the image and culture of Southern California in the imaginations of people from all around the world. California Pop tells the tale of how this once reviled region became one of the most celebrated slivers of coastline on the planet.

In the Velvet of Universal Emptiness
In the Velvet of Universal Emptiness

Author: Dayton Lummis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2015-03-30

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1491762616

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This is the fifth volume of what is now known as The Notational Quintet, a collection of acerbic and penetrating views of our contemporary society. The author tends toward pessimism but there are occasional bright rays that engender some hope. In reading these pieces you may be disturbedoccasionally outragedbut not bored. Good for deck reading on SS Titanic

The Road Ahead
The Road Ahead

Author: Dayton Lummis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2016-04-12

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1491790474

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The Road Ahead is something that we all are on, and like the old saying, When you come to a fork in the roadtake it, you will travel with the author in this volume of rambling thoughts, observations and acerbic opinions with a certain amount of unease. You are not expected to agree, but may be provoked, challenged, and occasionally outraged. The author reminds us that America is at a tipping point beyond which a whole new society awaits. Whether that will be good or badwe wont know until we are there. And, if The Shadow Knowshe aint tellin

Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point

Author: Dayton Lummis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1450224342

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VANISHING POINT is an eclectic collection of the authors writings ranging from short fiction pieces, and a disturbing account of a difficult period in early 1960s San Francisco, to personal observations in the first years of the 21st century. There are brief vignettes that capture aspects of the American character, from positive to cynically critical. Throughout the volume the author writes with crisp insight, humor, and occasional existential despair, which adds up to a unique American story