To walk down main street in Point Reyes Station with Dewey Livingston is to peer through a pair of bifocals, as past and present come into simultaneous focus.
Marin County’s foremost local historian, Mr. Livingston traces the ghost lines of the old railroad era, when the town revolved around a depot, a saloon and a hotel. He reads the landscape like an archaeological site, each stratum revealing the accretions of another age.
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