Giorgio Zampaglione loved his two-hour commute from the town of Mount Shasta into the surrounding Northern California forests last summer. The way the light filtered through the trees on the morning ...

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For the first time in a long time, Karl Ely figured he had pretty much everything he needed. Ely moved to Portland from Philadelphia several decades ago. The aspiring artist worked as a line cook and ...