Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich is one of Germany's most famous painters. "Save the Year," notes the website dedicated to Caspar David Friedrich's 250th anniversary, which Germany will celebrate throughout 2024 with a variety of events and exhibitions. In his recently published book on Caspar David Friedrich, "Zauber der Stille", German author Florian Illies writes that the artist's contemporaries reported …
CASPAR BEACH, Calif. — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern California’s vanishing kelp forests. “It’s ecologically sanctioned mayhem.” Scientific diver Morgan Murphy-Cannella swims past bull kelp as she surveys a reforestation project, Friday, Sept. 29, …
