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YOU ARE HERE

You Are Here is a monthly column that examines ideas about place and places in the West, written by members of the Writers Grotto.

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You Are Here: 2022 Highlights

Fourteen columns that examined place and places.

By Alta Editors
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33 8th apts, san francisco

You Are Here: In the Shadow of a Tower

san francisco, twin peaks

You Are Here: Above San Francisco

you are here, jd beltran, conflict

You Are Here: My Geography of Conflict

suburbia, el cerrito california, street art

You Are Here: Street Art in Suburbia

geoguessr

You Are Here: A Game to Get Lost In

mount saint helens eruption

You Are Here: Things That Go Boom

mary ladd, exvangelical, bethany bible college, bethany university

You Are Here: An Exvangelical’s Self-Care Sunday

the alley piano bar and restaurant

You Are Here: Oakland’s Last Piano Bar

laird harrison's family cabin

You Are Here: How to Grieve for a Place

bonnie tsui

You Are Here: The Place That Is Water

the free china completing her epic 6,000 mile transpacific voyage for 54 days as it arrives to the san francisco bay, in 1955, six audacious young men undertook a four month journey to san francisco from taiwan, aboard an old chinese junk, "the free china, "tuesday, august 9, 1955 oakland tribune

You Are Here: Arrivals and Departures

transamerica pyramid, san francisco

You Are Here: A Tower to Show You the Way Home

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san francisco, chinatown volunteer coalition

You Are Here: Chinatown Is Worth Fighting For

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writers grotto, lee kravetz reading

A Space to Call Our Own