The police now have reason to believe that Billie Mcgee, the twelve-year-old girl who went missing Monday morning from the Bayview neighborhood in San Francisco, may have run away. They are concerned that she may be in the company of a man who had sent her inappropriate text messages. Update, April 17: Bille Mcgee has been found safe. Apparently, she was with friends.
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Billie Mcgee: Missing Child
Twelve-year-old Billie Mcgee has been missing since Monday morning. She was last seen when she left her home in Bayview to take the bus to S.R. Martin College Preparatory School, where she is an honor roll student in the seventh grade. From the Chronicle: “Billie is 5-foot, 5-inches tall, African-American and weighs 140 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing her school uniform: a black and white jacket with a white collared shirt and black pants.” Her mother is certain that someone took her. Anyone with information should call the San Francisco Police...
Looking Forward to…
Two novellas by Gary Amdahl, I Am Death. From Kirkus: “Two narratives of frustrated possibility, offering an awareness of the brutal indifference of modern life.” More about the book on Bookforum. Amdahl’s previous book is the story collection Visigoth, winner of the Milkweed Prize for Fiction. And hitting the shelves in June, David Sedaris’s latest laugh-a-lot, When You Are Engulfed in Flames. See Sedaris read about accessories on David Letterman.
Fog Photo Tour
Robert Owen, a sea captain and photographer who embarked on a photo tour of the places that inspired The Year of Fog several months ago, recently made another swing through San Francisco and has added many new photos to his Year of Fog photo set on flickr. Among them, this shot of the fly fishing ponds in Golden Gate Park.
Historic Photos of San Francisco
I’ve recently been enjoying a hefty, beautiful book about San Francisco, called, simply, Historic Photos of San Francisco, with text and captions by Rebecca Schall. Dozens of photographs culled from the collections of the San Francisco Public Library span two centuries of the city’s development, from its beginnings as “The Paris of the West” in the late 19th century to the turbulent sixties. The book is arranged primarily in ten-to-twenty year segments–the reconstruction of 1900-1919, the underground excitement of the prohibition years , the struggles of the thirties, the population boom of the forties, the economic revival of the...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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