The complete online text of Stories in Light and Shadow by Bret Harte.

Francis Brett Harte (1837-1902), known as Bret Harte, an American poet and fiction writer who specialized in local color and regional stories, set the fashion in fiction for a number of writers in the era following the Civil War. Bret Harte, born in Alba...

Bret Harte was the first Pacific slope writer to gain an international reputation for his work. As a deft observer of character and conditions, he introduced to a worldwide audience the picturesque life of mid-nineteenth-century northern California. Yet...

Bret Harte was the first Pacific slope writer to gain an international reputation for his work. As a deft observer of character and conditions, he introduced to a worldwide audience the picturesque life of mid-nineteenth-century northern California. Yet...

GLOBE NORTHWEST 1 'Seeing the Light' Watercolors by Marla Greenfield Concord Art Association 37 Lexington Road, Concord Through Jan. 28; Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 978-369-2578; concordart.org The watercolors...

ARTS In Spanish artist Eva Navarro 's world, it's not necessarily the bigger picture that matters, but rather the minutiae. In "Solar Time," her exhibit at MPG Contemporary that ends tomorrow, Navarro paints an abstract landscape of solitary images lifted out of context and...