The NCHS relishes in the opportunity to work with school kids in the Napa County. Over the years our scavenger hunts have brought kids into the Goodman Library building for […]
Category Archives: General History
This article was published in the Vol. 23, No. 2 edition of Tidings, our quarterly newsletter. To get your copy of Tidings, become a member today! by Marie Bowen In […]
by Kilian Fitzgerald The Boys Scouts of America, Napa Country was founded by Elmer Bickford and John L. Shearer in 1911. Bickford was from a Napa banking family and well-regarded […]
Veterans Day first began as Armistice Day, declared by President Woodrow Wilson on November 11, 1919, to commemorate the end of World War I the year prior. Wilson said of […]
Today the Los Angeles Times ran a fascinating article about Ernie Pyle, the Pulitzer-prize winning journalist. He was most famous for his articles covering the US involvement in World War […]
Today is the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day when Civil Rights demonstrators tried to march to Montgomery, Alabama, from Selma on the Jefferson Davis Highway. At the Edmund […]