Clippings From the Vine
Selections from the Published Works of Dayton Lummis
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At times I have walked the mean streets of some of America's "baddest" cities. I was even stabbed once. But I never had a gun pointed at me until I got to Cripple Creek.
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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…
About the Author
DAYTON LUMMIS was born in New York City, and raised on Philadelphia’s Main Line. He graduated from Yale University, and holds a Master’s degree in American History from San Francisco State University. In his professional career he served as a history museum Curator or Director in locations as diverse as urban Oakland, California, and the remote, once rich gold producing semi-ghost town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, where he reached the third highest position in his profession―9500'! And, as was said of many a Western miner, “He acquired little gold but much experience…” The author now divides his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Saint David’s, Pennsylvania, wearing, as he remarks, “two rather different hats…”