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StoryTao House: the six years America's greatest playwright hid in the Danville hillsEugene O'Neill named his house for the Chinese word for "the way," wrote Long Day's Journey Into Night there, and was almost never seen in town. Then the house nearly disappeared.Danville · October 19, 2026Story10 things you didn't know about BlackhawkA racehorse, a dynamite fire, a buyer "in Switzerland" and a car museum UC Berkeley once part-owned. Blackhawk's story, from a century of local newspapers.Blackhawk · Danville · October 19, 2026