You can't learn it. And it won't just be the stories she chronicled about the Carrillos, the Italian and Chinese immigrants, the prune farmers, Luther Burbank and the vast cast of people who wove the fabric of Sonoma County. The stories she writes now about the everyday happenings, the human face she gives to the names in the news columns, will be key source material for future historians looking back at North Bay life in the late 20th century. The flesh and blood, as she describes it, to the bones of history reported on the front page. Gaye, he says, is to Santa Rosa what diarist Samuel Pepys was to London.
News is the front story.
The back story is the context and what it's really all about.