Our household, like most others on our street in Pasadena, California, consisted of three generations. It was a result of the Great Depression, where people in my parent’s generation were not able to afford their own home and, with children…
Month: December 2012
Steppin’ Out – Tale of the Dogs
“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” Otto von Bismarck We are very lucky in having quite a number of places in El Dorado County that serve great hot dogs: Shoestring, Hangtown Hot Dogs,…
Community Profiles – Georgia Slide
Many history books paint the incorrect picture that until Marshall picked up a few flakes of gold at Coloma in 1848, gold mining was unknown in the United States. But this is far from true. In Southern California, at…
Skinner Winery: New Vines from Family Roots
It was 1842 and James Skinner, his wife Jessie and his oldest son, James Jr., stepped off a boat into the United States. Thirty years old at the time, Skinner had been born in the Scottish town of Kettle in…