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Don Mitchell

writer / photographer / book designer / anthropologist

Shibai: Remembering Jane Britton’s Murder

Shibai’s website In 2017, the 1969 murder of my fellow Harvard grad student and friend Jane Britton took over my life. (The Wikipedia article is incomplete and misleading in some ways, but it’s a useful summary.) The case had been cold for years. It was solved — after nearly half a century — but along…

A Tale of Two youtube Channels

Can there be such a thing as an epistolary blog posting? Sure! Here’s one that played out in February, 2023. First up, an exchange with someone from the youtube channel Murder Murder News. Hello — Earlier today I was doing a reverse image search for some of my Jane Britton portraits, and I noticed that…

Life Up on the Ridge

Although there were many plusses to our life in Hilo (in my childhood home) in the end we realized that Hilo wasn’t the best place for us. So in 2020 we sold the house on Wailuku Drive that had been in my family for 75 years, and moved to Freeville NY, which is just outside…