We were so happy that our old friend and colleague's Mike Messner's book party happened while we could still - just! - be here for Spring Break! To say that it's a book about his old High School's yearbook makes it sound parochial - and it's anything but, even if the one hundred and twenty years of Salinas High School's publication offer the basis for a wide-reaching discussion of student life: sports and academics; gender and racial demographics, and plenty of surprises (finding that at one time the cheerleaders were all boys certainly puts a different spin on stereotypes). Of course, in England we never had yearbooks, as such - rather, it was - and is - the School Magazine - and an analogous study might be somewhat different. But this is a tour de force - micro into macro history - and stunningly produced by Rutgers University Press - it's a really beautiful volume.
Mike above, and Pierrette below, and in the mirror Doe Mayer - another former USC colleague, now a Santa Fe-an, too.
and, for complete irrelevance, a bluebird in Eldorado, except that it was so beautiful I had to share it.
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