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This Week in H’burg is a weekly column featuring photos and fun facts from local photographer Pierre Ratté. Each week we’ll feature a new photo from Ratté along with a fact about the subject matter of the photo.

Now that it’s June and we’re past Memorial Day and local schools are closed for summer vacations, we can all break out our BBQ grills, outdoor RV equipment, camping gear and backyard mowing tools.

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.” 

Less than a month ago, I attended an hour-long panel, “Tips for Making Money in the Newly Regulated Market,” that took place at the Emerald Cup in Santa Rosa.

Fifty years ago this month, an unusual looking aircraft resembling a large grasshopper was seen flying over the Russian River at very low altitude, arousing a great deal of interest from residents...