If someone handed you a map of California with the 58 counties outlined and a list of their names could you put the right name…
Posts published by “Katy Tahja”
For fascinating listening there is “The Great Influenza” by John Barry. It’s available from the County Library and provides hours of informative material on a…
As a historian I’m the first person to admit I can start a project writing about one planned topic, influenza in Mendocino County in 1918,…
Research Rapture? It’s what happens when a history mystery is handed to your historian correspondent and time and resources allow hours of delving into facts…
It started out as a simple enough road trip plan. We were going to drive to Oregon to ride on two tourist excursion railroads we’d…
Brandenburg’s Concerto Number 3 being played by a live orchestra is not the kind of music you would expect to be performed at Burning Man,…
As drought lowers the levels of man made reservoirs all over California amazing things have been popping up in the dry lakebeds. At Folsom Lake…
As a bookseller at Gallery Bookshop I recently had the pleasure of selling a 60 year old but ever-wonderful picture book called “The Biggest Bear”…
So an older man asks “My great-aunt told me years ago that when she was a kid she went to the Hiawatha and Minihaha schools in the north county. This was 100 years ago. Was she being truthful? Did these schools really exist and how did schools get named for poet Longfellow’s narratives?”
So it started out to be a field trip to Bear Valley on the Lake/Colusa County line north off Highway 20 to look at wildflowers.…
There’s no sensation like being rocked to sleep in a berth on AMTRAK as the miles fly by to put a relaxing end to a…