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The same valley park twice. Left, without printed money: ranch houses, oaks, a picnic, a kite, dogs running loose. Right, with printed money: towers block the hills, banknotes pour down one channel behind a residents-only fence, a tent, a ghostly ladder.

Printed Money and Generational Phenomena

Alan Forester-Kaiser · October 16, 2026

On almost any Saturday in the spring of 2021, an open house in Sunnyvale went something like this. The house was a three-bedroom ranch on a cul-de-sac, one of thousands put up in the late 1950s for the engineers and […]

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Memory farmland at dusk: rows of bulky gray memory buildings, each venting shimmering heat, planted like crops to the horizon under a violet and orange sky with dark hills and transmission towers, and one last fruit tree in blossom

Memory Farms in the Valley of Heart's Delight

Idan Rednaxus · October 1, 2026

Before it was Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley had another name. Promoters in the early twentieth century called it the Valley of Heart's Delight: miles of prune, apricot, peach, and cherry orchards between the bay and the hills, among […]

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