Las Positas Students: 2009

Interesting Trips

Read about our trip to Europe , in 1993 and France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Belgium will come alive!

London is one of the world’s greatest cities! Relive Jim’s and Claudia’s 1997 London trip.

Alaska is one of the world’s most picturesque places, as Jim & Claudia learned in 2004.

A PhotoShow of the 2004 Alaskan trip

A PhotoShow of Claudia’s & Jim’s 2004 trip to Maine and Quebec City.

A PhotoShow of Jim’s & Claudia’s 2006 trip to the U.S. Southwest.

Spain is a phenomenal country. Relive Claudia’s & Jim’s 2008 journey to Spain.

Miscellaneous

"Lest We Forget," Jim’s moving account of Colin, their youngest child who died in 2001.

Pictures and short bios of all the Willis family members.

PhotoShow of Corrigan & Dee, made by Jim for their 2006 wedding.

PhotoShow of our River Meadows home

PhotoShow of the Willis boys’ birthdays in 2004

Christmas letter, 1996, detailing Corrigan’s success at the Babe Ruth World Series in North Carolina.

Jim’s book on his classroom experiences at Granada (in progress).

W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
( The Unknown Citizen )

Martin Bell ()
(Barrington Bunny)

John Betjeman (1906-1984)
(In Westminster Abbey)

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
(An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge)

Robert Bolt (1924-1999)
(A Man For All Seasons)

T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-)
(Greasy Lake)

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
(Jane Eyre)

Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
(Cathedral)

John Cheever (1912-1982)
(The Five-Forty_Eight)

Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
(The Story of an Hour; The Storm)

Robert Cormier (1925-2000)
(The Chocolate War)

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
(The Open Boat)

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
(The Jewels)

John Donne (1572-1631)
(The Sun Rising; The Flea; Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God)

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
(The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock)

William Faulkner (1897-1962)
(A Rose For Emily; Barn Burning)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)
(The Road not Taken; Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening)

Tess Gallagher (1943-)
(The Lover Of Horses)

William Golding (1911-1993)
(Lord of the Flies)

Graham Greene (1904-1991)
(The Heart of the Matter)

Jakob (1785-1863) & Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)
(Godfather Death)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
(Young Goodman Brown)

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
(A Clean, Well Lighted Place)

A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
(To An Athlete Dying Young)

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
(Les Miserables)

Shirley Jackson (1917-1965)
(The Lottery)

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
(The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner)

James Joyce (1882-1941)
(Araby)

John Knowles (1926-2001)
(A Separate Peace)

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
(The Rocking-Horse Winner)

Jerome Lawrence (1915-2004) and Robert E. Lee (1918-1994)
(Inherit the Wind)

Harper Lee (1926- )
(To Kill a Mockingbird)

Jack London (1876-1916)
(To Build a Fire)

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
( Miss Brill)

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
(To His Coy Mistress)

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
(Appointment in Samarra)

Steve Metcalfe (1953-)
(Strange Snow)

Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
(Death of a Salesman)

Farley Mowat (1921- )
(Never Cry Wolf)

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
(A Good Man is Hard to Find)

Eugene O'Neill
(1888-1953)
(A Long Day's Journey into Night; Desire Under the Elms )

Eugene's daughter, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, married to Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

Eugene's father, James O'Neill (1846-1920)

Eugene (1888-1953), Jamie (1878-1922) , and James O'Neill (1846-1920)

Monte Cristo Cottage, the O'Neill home in New London, Connecticut and the setting for Long Day's Journey into Night which occurs in 1912.

The Cottage

The Parlor

The Family Room

Memorabilia Room

Tao House, Eugene O'Neill's and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill's home in Danville, California where he wrote Long Day's Journey into Night in 1939-1940.

One wing of Tao House, pictured from the rear