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Napa Valley Chronicles

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...

The Mystery of the Asylum

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...

Book Review: A Rumbling of Women

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....

An Ode to Nelda Nocita

Originally Posted: Sunday, June 19, 2005 Dear editor, Nelda Nocita, retired professor of economics at Napa Valley College, died recently, and most of those now working there did not know her. It is necessary, as Arthur Miller wrote, that “attention must be...