Pomo dancers encouraged audience participation at the Mendocino Film Festival and enthusiasm as they demonstrated dances by different local bands of Pomo. They danced down the aisle and out the front door to great acclaim. Native films followed and then a discussion panel. (Frank Hartzell via Bay City News)

FORT BRAGG, 6/15/23 — The Mendocino Film Festival, one of the town of Mendocino’s two big cultural parties of the year, just ended, with the other, the Mendocino Music Festival, soon to follow. 

In Fort Bragg the World’s Largest Salmon Barbecue will be on July 1, while Fort Bragg’s biggest festive event of the year, Paul Bunyan Days, kicks off Labor Day weekend.

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Frank Hartzell is a freelancer reporter and an occasional correspondent for The Mendocino Voice. He has published more than 10,000 news articles since his first job in Houston in 1986. He is the recipient...