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Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall riffs on life as she knows it.

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A Dune on Lake Michigan: We Couldn’t Climb Eagle Top — So We Paid Homage From Afar

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I emailed my cousin Jeanie. Did she want to visit some of our childhood haunts, like Eagle Top? Read more.

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On April 4, 2016, former employees of the Oakland, California, Tribune, had a wake in honor of the paper's last day of publication. Photos by Barbara Newhall

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