Napa Firehouse Cookbook, 1964-1974 By Lauren Coodley and Danielle Alexander (2016) “The tastes and smells and rituals of the table can often tell us a great deal about people and their priorities. It can even reconstruct a world.” —Alida Becker, “The Cookbook Addict”...
Researching Napa Birds By Lauren Coodley (January, 2006) In studying the history of Napa, I came across a bit of tantalizing information: banker and Boy Scout leader Elmer Bickford wrote a letter to the editor in the l920’s, listing the birds that the Scouts had...
By Lauren Coodley “Imagined voices, and beloved, too, of those who died, or of those who are lost unto us like the dead. Sometimes in our dreams they speak to us; sometimes in its thought the mind will hear them.” (“Voices”, C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems....
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’...
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...
