David Jervis

Aug 10, 2023 | northcoastjournal.com | David Jervis

Stephen Hillenburg attended what was then Humboldt State University in the early 1980s, about a decade before I did. He had a more impressive major than myself: natural resource planning and interpretation, better known as NRPI (all the formidable science degrees on that campus seem to have acronyms) with an emphasis in marine biology. But the seed of future success was in his studio art minor.

Mar 30, 2023 | northcoastjournal.com | David Jervis

The first decades of the American 20th century were filled with contradiction. In some rural corners, medicine shows hawked cold remedies that were a quarter alcohol and hair tonics that contained frightening levels of lead. Meanwhile, the U.S. at large was in thrall to the burgeoning scientific breakthroughs at the tail end of the industrial age. But these two belief systems had more in common than one might realize.

Mar 29, 2023 | northcoastjournal.com | David Jervis

Oct 27, 2021 | northcoastjournal.com | David Jervis

Sep 30, 2021 | northcoastjournal.com | David Jervis