Shipwreck Stories .     An accordion book that collages facts, fictions, images and maritime charts to give different views of six shipwrecks that occurred between 1865 and 1944 along the Northern California coast. Published by Pacific Editions in a limited edition of 28 copies, it's been acquired by -- and is available for viewing at -- the New York Public Library; the Whitney Museum; the Houghton Library, Harvard; Stanford University's Green Library; Mills College; UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library and the Achenbach Foundation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (Click on a ship's name to read the facts and the fiction and to see a pastel/monotype based on the story.)    

1865, The Brother Jonathan, sank off Crescent City.  1936, The Ohioan, salvaged off Point Lobos.  1882, The George Louis, lost inside Mile Rock.  1880, The J. M. Wall, struck by lightning near Crescent City.  1944, The Henry Bergh, ran on the Farallon Islands.   1878, The Western Shore, sank on Duxbury Reef.

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