Vanishing Point
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Where it all started. Here is a photograph of me at age 14 (very slim!), “thinking to be a cowboy,” taken by my father with a “Brownie Hawkeye” camera in the mountains above Malibu in Southern California in 1951. I seem to be staring east into some unknowable future, toward dim, receding mountain ranges fading away. That photograph, that image, those dim mountain ranges and an unknowable future—that is sort of where it all started (for me). A West where one could be whatever one wanted to be, or so an impressionable young boy thought. The dim, unknowable future and its end always far, far off.
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VANISHING POINT is an eclectic collection of the author’s writings ranging from short fiction pieces, and a disturbing account of “a difficult period” in early 1960s San Francisco, to personal observations in the first years of the 21st century. There are brief vignettes that capture aspects of the American character, from positive to cynically critical. Throughout the volume the author writes with crisp insight, humor, and occasional existential despair, which adds up to a unique American story…
About the Author
DAYTON LUMMIS was born in New York City, and is a graduate of Yale University. He holds a Master’s Degree in American History from San Francisco State University. A professional historian, he has served as a Director of cultural history museums in locations as diverse as Cripple Creek, Colorado, and Santa Rosa, California. Currently he divides his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Philadelphia suburb of Saint David’s.