THE MYERS FLAT NEWS

About the Book

Did you ever fantasize about moving to a small town in the country or the forested mountains? Well then have a look at this slice of life as recorded in the Myers Flat News for the historically important years which included 9/11/2001, the initiation of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the end of the logging industry in Northern California, as well as human interest tales of people living that fantasy, sometimes for two or three generations. You will read about Sammy the Dog, the adventures of the Boys in the Bar, and how smoking was finally prohibited (more or less) in the one and only saloon in town -- in the one and only newspaper ever published in Myers Flat, California -- The Myers Flat News.

About the Author

The author, Carol Ruth Silver, recently published an award-winning book, Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison. It is the prison diary kept, day by day for forty days, by the author as a young woman. She was in jail having been arrested and imprisoned as a Freedom Rider. Who were the Freedom Riders? Armed only with a commitment to non-violence and with their belief in the equality of all persons, the Freedom Riders, young people, black and white together in small groups, purchased tickets and boarded commercial buses, riding to challenge segregation of African Americans in interstate public transportation in the Deep South. They met with resistance, violence, arrests and incarceration. After her release from the Mississippi prison, Carol Ruth went to law school, received her law degree at the University of Chicago, and became a Civil Rights Attorney. After passage by the US Congress of the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity program, she became Directing Attorney for some of the first Legal Services program offices providing civil legal assistance to the poor, including the award-winning California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA). She was later elected three times to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She spent a year at the Harvard JFK School of Politics, and founded San Francisco’s renowned Mandarin-English Bi-Lingual Chinese American International School (CAIS). Since 2002 she has been working to promote education for girls and women in Afghanistan, including co-founding a school and the organizations Afghan Friends Network and Hayward-Ghazni Sister City Committee. She also ran in the California North Coast Democratic Primary for Congress, published the Myers Flat News, and has been a successful Mother and Grandmother. Her last job as an attorney was as Director of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office civil legal services for prisoners, after which she retired from law practice.