You have to Trust me on This One: Mahlen's Doing OK, Too

It's a weekend of coincidental meetings! Mahlen's doing OK, too. You have to trust me on this one; I ran out my phone batteries capturing Munzees, so no photo. He's reading

Original Copies about buildings in China that imitate buildings from elsewhere. It's good to have a Tour Eiffel handy, I guess.
Cool Gray City of Love 49 history essays about areas of San Francisco. Full of fun facts such as: San Francisco Bay has only been a bay for thousands of years.
The Shirley Letters A doctor's wife writes home about her life in a mining camp during the California Gold Rush, amongst folks with nuanced feelings about civilization.