Stephanie Sauer is a working artist and the author of The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force.
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Culture
Turning Abandoned Gold Mines Into Wheelchair Paths
How a motley alliance of hippies and hillbillies transformed a California mining town.
Stephanie Sauer