by admin | Jul 5, 2016 | General History, Napa, People, Tidings
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 1854, a 17 year-old Ohioan, Emory Augustus Mount, arrived in Napa. He likely had come to visit his...
by admin | Dec 11, 2015 | Community Groups & Organizations, General History
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 as a community leader. He was an avid photographer and bird watcher. Shearer was the...
by admin | Nov 11, 2015 | General History, People
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 the event, “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn...
by admin | Jun 17, 2015 | California History, General History, People, Wine and Viticulture
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 II, but he was also the country’s first aviation correspondent. In the...
by admin | Mar 7, 2015 | African American History, Found It In The Archives, General History
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 Pettus Bridge (named for a Confederate brigadier general, Alabama state senator,...
