The Unseen Peninsula

(1984-1995)

As a boy growing up in Woodside, a small town on the San Francisco Peninsula, I wanted to visit the lands of the San Francisco State Fish and Game Refuge, but was told that people were forbidden on the property.  That only made my desire more compelling as I could see the land from my hilltop bedroom. Almost 30 years later, I finally gained access to this unique place. As I wrote in the introduction to my first monograph,

“I am what author, poet and essayist Wendell Berry might call a ‘placed person’ and the San Francisco Peninsula is my home.”