If there is just too much California history for you, just look at the photos...Napa is a feast for the eyes.
It took a lot of planning to schedule/ calendar our three wonderful days together as college friends. We call ourselves "the Originals"...I guess everyone is original (maybe that term could be open to interpretation??), but we are the small group of Whitman College girlfriends, class of 1965, who have tried to get together about once a year. Soon the larger group that blossomed from our small group will have a reunion, too. We mostly talked, ate, and visited museums, shops, vineyards and other places of interest in and around St. Helena, where we stayed at the home of Kathleen, in the Napa Wine Country, which is gorgeous! It is inland, about one hour north of San Francisco, where hot days and cool nights and various composition soils make it one of the best wine regions in the world.
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That first evening Kathleen, as president of Rotary service organization, gave a short talk urging people to support scholarships for needy pre-schoolers at a fundraising dinner, provided by local Clif family (who have expanded their famous Clif bar business to include other food products) food truck.
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(1850, Scotland- 1894, Samoa) His stories and poems are known and loved by American children. |
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We loved the new 1881 historical museum in Oakville, housed in an old Victorian house across the street from the old Oakville station. ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglY0Mc7gPEHuv-FFZcid8NDGBDudP6Idf9Wex8nFeuaD00Fgsgo0Rd5FR6e50de_CuFzGkfufmxEBtkNVESTESON0pS9KtE1fgFBeMvPqQTo-6KqnsQJoJvO7_md1wJHI5WDH_osBjeA0/s320/20190823_151901_Burst01.jpg)
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