‘The Synanon Fix’ shows how a rehab group became a cult
In the late 1950s, Charles “Chuck” Dederich started a drug rehabilitation program out of a storefront in Santa Monica. A recovering alcoholic who’d gotten sober…
This California family found a political haven in Iowa
The Barbies lived in California, of course. On summer days, as Sara O’Neil pranced her dolls along the muddy stream that ran through her family’s…