Tom DeVries

Stories don't tell themselves

Tom DeVries

Stories don't tell themselves

Tom DeVries’ Stuff

Tom DeVries, a recovering journalist and television producer, lives just outside Yosemite in California. This is an archive of past journalism projects, and current blog posts.

Photo above courtesy of Michael Macor, taken after the Oct 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Oakland, California. The video being made in his shot is here.

We have our stories, my tools and I. Got my first chainsaw for twenty-five bucks from Ralph Hoffman, the small engine guy in Mariposa town. I think he was doing me a favor, giving me that price for a very used Pioneer, Canadian brand, noisy and heavy, life-saving. Fire crew boss at the Forest … More The tools

(A flier for a college course about my younger days. Kind of tripped me out.) You’re gonna study the 60s? First, ‘oh, good.’ The 60s were everything you could hope for in this world. Probably more. They were just wonderful. Enjoy them vicariously and recreate as much of them as you can, or as seems … More On studying the 60s

Had an exchange of letters with grandson Drew, a nearly-teen. He had a school assignment to contrast and compare his times with mine. Clickbait if ever I saw one. But it tripped me out. What, indeed, was it like, to be a kid in the 50s. So, thank you Drew, and check out the 1950s when … More Now & Then