New Book Documents Napa Valley Before There Were Grapes By Tom Stockwell, Napa Register ~ Aug 11 2014, Order from Bookshop.org Order from Napa Bookmine Napa Valley Farming, by Paula Amen Judah and Lauren Coodley, in collaboration with the Napa County Historical...
Frankie's Journey: The Silk Road to Napa By Lauren Coodley and Stephanie Farrell Grohs, with an afterword by Rue Ziegler. The Mousetail Press, 2014 Frankie’s Journey traces the early 20th century trek of an imaginary San Francisco boy from his home at the Youths’...
Napa Valley Chronicles By Lauren Coodley Excerpt Over 75 images, and the stories that accompany them can be found within the pages of this Chronicle. In 1905, Napa’s mayor, J.A. Fuller, announced, “Napa for half a century has been slumbering in a Rip Van Winkle sleep...
Napa Asylum, Before reconstruction Why are we so intrigued by the mystery of asylums? These institutions were established in the nineteenth century in America to provide housing for those who were so challenged by life that they could not exist outside its walls. The...
A Rumbling of Women – New book chronicles feminism in Napa 1970-1990 April 27, 2018 | By Lauren Coodley The movement for women’s equality in public and private life did not begin in the 1970s. Though, those of us who participated in it might have thought so....
