Before 2020, Allen Clapp had spent his entire life within a more-or-less 50-mile radius of San Jose. And, until 2020, when he and his wife Jill were living contentedly in Boulder Creek, he had no plans to break that bond, at least for the foreseeable future.

Then came the fires.


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Wallace reports and writes not only across his familiar areas of deep interest — including arts, entertainment and culture — but also is chronicling for Lookout the challenges the people of Santa Cruz...