today
8 a.m. Discovery Ride Through the Ancient Forest Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park Visitors Center
read >8 a.m. Silvercrest Residence Annual Rummage Sale Silvercrest Residence
read >8:30 a.m. Audubon Field Trip to the Arcata Marsh Klopp Lake, foot of I St.
read >8:30 a.m. Audubon Field Trip to Mad River Mad River Hatchery
read >9 a.m. Arcata Farmers' Market Arcata Plaza
read >9 a.m. Tai Chi for Everyone Arcata Plaza
read >9 a.m. Friends of the Marsh Restoration Workday See Event Description
read >9 a.m. Feed the Community Fresh Food Drive Arcata Plaza
read >9 a.m. Free Electronic Recycling Various Locations
read >9:30 a.m. Humboldt Coastal Education Center and Reserve Stamps Property Restoration Stamps House
read >9:30 a.m. Soroptimist of McKinleyville 2M and 5k Run/Walk Hiller Park
read >10 a.m. Blocksburg Harvest Faire Blocksburg Town Hall
read >10 a.m. Medieval Festival of Courage Mad River Hospital
read >10:30 a.m. Ferndale Farmers' Market Downtown Ferndale
read >noon Redwood Art Association Fall Exhibition Redwood Art Association Gallery
read >noon Sand Dollar Shuffle 5M Run See Event Description
read >1 p.m. Discovery Museum Adventure Afternoon Discovery Museum
read >1:30 p.m. Signed Storytime Humboldt County Library Main Branch
read >2 p.m. Friends of the Marsh Oct. 11 Tour Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Interpretive Center
read >2 p.m. Second Saturday Family Arts Day: Day of the Dead Morris Graves Museum of Art
read >4 p.m. Acoustic and Open Mic Has Beans
read >5 p.m. ICF Br. 145 Scholarship Dinner Saint Bernards Church
read >5 p.m. Rock the Vote Concert Toph's House
read >5:30 p.m. Ryan the Piano Guy 3 Foods Cafe
read >6 p.m. Dance at Rohner Grange Rohner Grange 509
read >6 p.m. Matthew Cook Cher-Ae-Heights Casino
read >6 p.m. The Tumbleweeds Chapala Cafe
read >6 p.m. Ali & Baron Libation
read >6:30 p.m. Eloquent Nude: The Love and Legacy of Edward Weston and Charis Wilson Morris Graves Museum of Art
read >7 p.m. Saturday Evening Dinners for Singles Private House in Arcata
read >7 p.m. Youssoupha Sidibe CD Release Party Green Life Evolution Center
read >7 p.m. Roller Derby: Good Vs. Evil Redwood Acres Fairground
read >7:30 p.m. Three Poets, Three Views Westhaven Center for the Arts
read >8 p.m. Buddy Reed and the Rip It Ups Gilded Rose
read >8 p.m. Bill Engvall Arkley Center for the Performing Arts
read >8 p.m. The Merry Wives of Windsor North Coast Repertory Theater
read >8 p.m. The Princess and the Pea Mateel Community Center
read >8 p.m. ShinBone at Mosgo's Mosgo's
read >8 p.m. Pianist Deborah Clasquin Fulkerson Recital Hall at HSU
read >8 p.m. Noises Off Ferndale Repertory Theater
read >9 p.m. Karaoke w/Chris Clay The Boiler Room
read >9 p.m. Class of '63 at Cher ae Heights Casino Cher-Ae-Heights Casino
read >9 p.m. Jimmy James Bear River Casino
read >9 p.m. DJ MusiqLement The Playroom
read >9 p.m. Ponche! The Red Fox Tavern
read >9 p.m. Papa Bear Six Rivers Brewery
read >9 p.m. Hookah Stew WAVE @ blue lake casino
read >9 p.m. The Men of Las Vegas Sapphire Palace at Blue Lake Casino
read >9 p.m. Yer Dog Humboldt Brews
read >9 p.m. Common Vice, Hey Eleanor Pearl Lounge
read >9 p.m. Taxi Riverwood Inn
read >9 p.m. Quinn Deveaux, Montage Jambalaya
read >9 p.m. The Brett Heartbreakers Muddy's Hot Cup
read >9:30 p.m. Live DJ Ragg's Rack Room
read >10 p.m. DJ Blancatron Aunty Mo's Lounge
read >10 p.m. DJ Itchie Fingaz Sidelines
read >10 p.m. The Hard Ride w/ Ol' Scratch The Lil' Red Lion
read >10 p.m. Melvin Seals & JGB Mazzotti's Arcata
read >11:15 p.m. Machete, Nine Worlds The Alibi Lounge and Restaurant
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Whispers
By Benjamin Green
I was too young to know him well as a trout fisherman.
Grandpa would sit on the far edge of the dock
Casting lures to lake trout
While I dunked cheese for perch.
He always wore a hat, even at night,
So his bald head would not burn.
Later, he fished the ocean from a pier.
Early mornings would find him
In the fog, casting bait into the calms between breakers.
Whenever he caught something, he would announce what it was,
Whisper the names:
Croaker cod. Sea trout. Barracuda.
Corvina. Bonito, which he said meant
Beautiful in Spanish.
He had a gentle voice, even when impatient.
Now he is gone and I walk a different pier
With my daughter,
Watch the catch of other fishers
Hauled on deck,
Hear my soft voice whisper
Ling cod. Chinook. Rockfish. Cabezon. Halibut.
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