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View From Marin
WE LEAD OFF our fea- tures this month with an unsettling topic we’ve wanted to tackle for a while now. With
October being National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, we decided the time
was right to ask writer Jennifer Woodlief
— author of our Farallones sailing disaster
and teen drinking stories — to investigate
Marin’s statistically high breast cancer
rates. After months of diligent research,
With
October being
National
Breast Cancer
Awareness
Month, we
decided the
time was right
to investigate
Marin’s
statistically
high breast
cancer rates.
ON THE COVER
Sausalito’s Kay Carlson is an art teacher,
a plein air painter specializing in Northern
California scenes and a cofounder and current
executive director of Marin Open Studios. Our
cover image of her painting Cline Golden Eagle
was “created in mid-November when the slant
of light brings a glow to color in shadows,”
she says. “For me it is thrilling to be in the hills
alone with only the changing drama of light
and my own struggle to catch it.”
Woodlief finds that a closer look at the
statistics and efforts by local health care
experts have taken some sting out of
the numbers.
Halloween also happens in October, and
with a nod to that other worldly holiday, we set
out to explore Marin’s mystical side. Editorial
assistant Calin Van Paris visited Marin psychics, went to an occult bookstore and got
caught up on the latest brain research to consider what wonders await in the beyond.
We wrap up our features with a photo essay
from Daniel Fox, founder of the Wild Image
Project in Sausalito. ( Yes, his last name really
is Fox.) He presents some stunning images of
animals and shares his artistic philosophy and
lessons learned from the wild.
In the front of the book we give a sneak preview of Mill Valley Film Festival o;erings that
have a Marin connection, reveal great trick-or-treat spots and catch up with rock star
Sammy Hagar, the founders of Freda Salvador,
and Marin Clean Energy’s Dawn Weisz.
In Destinations we discover wineries
that have taken the focus on food to another
level, detail additional wine picks in our
Appellations column and, farther afield,
invite you along on a golf trip to Scotland’s
legendary Gleneagles.
October is a great month; enjoy the issue
and then get out to savor the splendor of
Indian summer.
Marin Magazine Staff Editors
Above, from left:
Mimi Towle, Nikki Wood,
Dan Jewett
