12-17749 Rancho de Calistoga v. City of Calistoga
Rancho de Calistoga appeals from the district court's dismissal of its 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging the City of Calistoga's rent control law.
Bothe-Napa State Park Overnight Hiking and Car Camping
USA - AMERICA500 GEO Flag Exchange at Joseph Chiles Grave, St.Helena, CA
Pope Valley Ropers and Riders arrive with the US and California flag to commemorate the Napa Valley Firsts in honor of pioneer Joseph B. Chiles. He constructed the first and largest grist mill in Northern California at Napa Valley, upon coming to California with the 1841 Bidwell wagon train from Missouri. Chiles has many legends, in particular is the story of riding his horse to Mexico City upon receiving his land grant from the Alta California governor.
The Napa Valley Story sponsored by the Citizens Alliance for Golden State History
selected Chiles to be honored on his birthday to open the local window for worldwide learning in geography and history.
The Pope Valley Ropers and Riders delivered the US flag to the meeting, starting the conversation of knowing the story of building your town and our country. Riccardo Gaudino, Golden State historian, selected the Chiles story to energize the USA PROUD Learning call-to-action: raise California's no. 49 national ranking in education for future prosperity.
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2018-December-18
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2018-December-18
A Walk Around The Rubel Castle, Glendora, California
Rubel Castle (also known as Rubelia), officially Rubel Pharms and Castle, was established in Glendora, California, by Michael Clarke Rubel (April 16, 1940 – October 15, 2007), and is currently owned and operated by the Glendora Historical Society It has been called a San Gabriel Valley version of Watts Towers.”
Rubel purchased a 2½ acre citrus orchard on which the structure resides in 1959. He and his friends completed construction in 1986. Rubelia is considered the first major recycling project in the United States.
Rubel Castle was constructed partly out of concrete but also out of scrap steel, rocks, bedsprings, coat hangers, bottles, and other re-purposed materials that Rubel found.
A Toddler's Version of Napa Valley
Castello Di Amorosa - the castle, the views, and the animals
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2019-February-5
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2019-February-5
American History (After Hours): The Judgement of Paris and American Wine
On May 16, 2016, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris with a special American History (After Hours) program at the museum with wine tastings, food, and dynamic conversation. The Judgment of Paris was a pivotal moment forty years ago when American winemakers surprised a panel of French wine experts (and the world) by placing first in a blind tasting that pitted the new American wines against the best of France.
Watch the panel discussion from this evening about the legacy of the Judgment of Paris and American wine history featuring experts and some of the original participants:
Steven Spurrier – The organizer of the 1976 Judgment of Paris.
George Taber – The only journalist to cover the tasting and author of Judgment of Paris (New York: Scribner, 2005).
Warren Winiarski – The winemaker of the winning 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon and founder of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars
Bo Barrett – The CEO and former winemaker at Chateau Montelena Winery and son of the late Jim Barrett who owned Chateau Montelena at the time of the Judgment of Paris.
Violet Grgich – The daughter of Mike Grgich, the winemaker of the winning 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay and founder of the winery, Grgich Hills Estate, where Violet is co-proprietor.
Ted Baseler – The CEO of Ste. Michelle Estates and CEO of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars.
Moderated by Paula Johnson, Curator, National Museum of American History.
View pictures from the evening here:
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2019-10-01
Calistoga City Council Meeting
October 01, 2019
Margrit Mondavi on Women in Napa Valley
for complete oral history transcript with Margrit Mondavi.
Margit Mondavi was born in Switzerland in 1925 and raised in northern Italy. She married an American serviceman who brought her to the United States in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, they moved to Napa Valley, where her life’s work would really begin. She joined Charles Krug winery (owned by the Mondavi family) as a tour guide and, while there, pioneered the presentation of performances at the winery. She followed Robert Mondavi when he left Krug and started his own winery. A budding romance followed and she eventually married Mondavi in 1980. In this interview, Margrit Mondavi discusses her contributions to the development of wine education, marketing, and sales; she also discusses her combined interests in wine, food, and the arts, and how she brought those together at the winery.
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Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2018-May-1
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2018-May-1
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2018-April-17
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2018-April-17
New exhibit Museums of Lake County
Preview of the May 5 - September 1 Exhibit at the Museums of Lake County CA. Featured is County Curator Clark McAbee at the Gibson Museum & Cultural Center in Middletown, CA
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2019-August-06
City of Calistoga City Council Meeting
August 6, 2019
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2018-May-15
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2018-May-15
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2018-September-4
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2018-September-4
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2017-September-05
Calistoga City Council Meeting 2017-September-05
Subways Are for Sleeping / Only Johnny Knows / Colloquy 2: A Dissertation on Love
Subways Are for Sleeping is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The original Broadway production played in 1961-62.
The musical was inspired by an article about subway homelessness in the March 1956 issue of Harper's and a subsequent 1957 book based on it, both by Edmund G. Love, who slept on subway trains throughout the 1950s and encountered many unique individuals. With the profits from his book, Love then embarked on a bizarre hobby: over the course of several years, he ate dinner at every restaurant listed in the Manhattan yellow pages directory, visiting them in alphabetical order.
After two previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd, opened on December 27, 1961 at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 205 performances. The cast included Orson Bean, Sydney Chaplin, Carol Lawrence, Gordon Connell, Grayson Hall, and Green's wife Phyllis Newman (whose costume, consisting solely of a towel, was probably Freddy Wittop's easiest design in his distinguished career), with newcomers Michael Bennett and Valerie Harper in the chorus.
Subways Are for Sleeping opened to mostly negative reviews. The show already was hampered by a lack of publicity, since the New York City Transit Authority refused to post advertisements on the city's buses and in subway trains and stations for fear they would be perceived as officially sanctioning the right of vagrants to use these facilities as overnight accommodations. Producer David Merrick and press agent Harvey Sabinson decided to invite individuals with the same names as prominent theatre critics (such as Walter Kerr, Richard Watts, Jr. and Howard Taubman) to see the show and afterwards used their favorable comments in print ads. Thanks to photographs of the seven critics accompanying their blurbs (the well-known real Richard Watts was not African American), the ad was discovered to be a deception by a copy editor. It was pulled from most newspapers, but not before running in an early edition of the New York Herald Tribune. However, the clever publicity stunt allowed the musical to continue to run and it eventually turned a small profit.
Newman won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and nominations went to Bean for Best Featured Actor and Kidd's choreography.
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard James Muybridge (/ˌɛdwərd ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ/; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, birth name Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name.
He emigrated to the United States as a young man and became a bookseller. He returned to England in 1861 and took up professional photography, learning the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions. He went back to San Francisco in 1867, and in 1868 his large photographs of Yosemite Valley made him world famous. Today, Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.
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The Cemetery Man - Sizzle & Talent Reel
Another take on a series idea that was originally titled Grave Diggers. This reel featured Darren Bridgett as he explores cemeteries and graveyards around Northern California.