River Park Review

River Park Review It’s a gr ace to live! eat pl riverparksacramento.net Vol. 15 No. 2 April 2015 In this issue River Park in the News RP in the News ...............1 On February 25, 2015, KCRA 3 news Caleb Greenwood ..........2 reported that the occupant of a house in River Park had erected a “display” Homebrewers .................3 that included the Nazi swastika River Park Tree symbol. The display started with a Canopy Project .............5 Palestinian flag in December, and Traffic Concerns .............6 a wooden representation of a man Mothers’ Club News .......6 with his arms in the air in January, Caleb Corner ..................7 according to KCRA-3. However, in February the display was expanded Membership Update ......7 to include an Israeli flag in which the Army Corps’ Star of David had been replaced by situation. The Board immediately Levee Report ...............8 a swastika, and an American flag issued the following statement to Christian Brothers with the stars replaced by a swastika. the press through our City Council New Theater ............ 8 Subsequently, a star of David with the Representative Jeff Harris. Park Pets .........................9 word “shalom” was also put up. “We, the community of River Park, RP Computer Several other news organizations are very disappointed that one of our Groups ...........................9 followed suit and reported on the neighbors has chosen to construct Garden Club News ......10 “display”. The occupant has refused a “display” outside his home that contains symbols that are highly Watering Schedule .......10 to answer questions, only referring to the display as his “art”. offensive and represent one of the Neighbor Profile ............11 greatest tragedies in modern human Crime Report ................12 In what could be described as an history. River Park is a family- Neighborhood Watch emergency meeting, the Board of the focused neighborhood that promotes Report ..........................12 River Park Neighborhood Association met to discuss how to handle the Continued on page 4 Upcoming Events… SPRING GENERAL Monthly RPNA Meetings Glenn Hall Park Workday MEETING Third Thursdays Date: Sat. May 2nd, 9:00 til noon ALL RESIDENTS WELCOME!! April 16th and May 21st Tools and refreshments provided. Fremont Presbyterian Church Saturday, April 18th We will be pruning and spring 10:00 a.m. Block captains meet at cleaning. 7:00 p.m. Caleb Greenwood RPNA Board meets at Multi-Purpose Room Contact: Jeff Harris: 455-0996 7:30 p.m. Contact: Serge Stanich All residents are welcome. or [email protected] [email protected] RPNA OFFICERS & BOARD Who Really Was Caleb Greenwood? by Howdy Hoover Part 1 Serge Stanich I remember many years ago our family moved President to Sacramento from Redding. This was a big 320-0708 [email protected] change for my sister and me, coming from a smaller community to such a big city. Leaving Kimberly Teague all our friends and comfortable surroundings Vice President behind, we bought a new house in River Park 606-9154 and began new friendships. [email protected] Our parents enrolled us in the local elementary Eric Levinson school with a funny name. It was called Caleb Secretary Greenwood. What kind of name is that I 476-4354 wondered? Was this guy the founder of River [email protected] Park? I asked around but nobody really knew Barbara Debert much about Caleb Greenwood. Treasurer Later on I went to my teacher and asked her who Caleb Greenwood was. She said 456-2243 that most of the Sacramento schools were named after famous people in California [email protected] history. So for many years I left it at that, thinking of Caleb Greenwood only as a school because I didn’t know who the person was. Todd Damiano More recently, when I developed an interest in western American history, I did Newsletter Editor/Webmaster some research on Caleb Greenwood. It is very difficult to find information on 402-4641 Caleb’s history. He was probably born in Virginia around 1763. His descendants president@ claim he had to leave home at age 18 because he got in trouble with the law (he riverparksacramento.net shot one or two men who were trying to take their black cook away against her Tamis Reed will). RPNA Membership Director The next 25+ years in the Caleb’s life are somewhat sketchy. It is believed he was 804-5168 hiding out in the mountains of Tennessee or Kentucky. Caleb was an expert shot membership@ with his flintlock rifle and was very capable of living off the land. In 1810, already riverparksacramento.net in his late 40s, Caleb joined John Jacob Astor’s trapping party and left St. Louis to Janet Mason trap beaver about 400 miles up the Missouri River. Graphic Design/Newsletter Caleb spend the next 25, or so, years trapping in the Rockies and living with the Advertising Manager Indians. This was a very old age (late 40s to early 60s) to be trapping, but Caleb 736-1132 was in very good shape and was actually a hunter for the party and did not have [email protected] to wade into the cold water to set traps. A very good portrayal of this lifestyle is the movie Jeremiah Johnson starring Robert Redford, or a visit to the trapper station at Eric Schranz Sutter’s Fort. Block Captain Coordinator At the age of 62 or 63 Caleb married a crow Indian woman named Batchicka. RP Review Distribution They had five sons and two daughters. This superhuman geriatric feat alone was 207-2038 something to marvel at, but Caleb still had not done the things that would make him [email protected] famous. That didn’t come until the 1840’s when Caleb was in his eighties. In the early 1840s the westward movement of settlers to Oregon and California Members at Large was beginning. Elisha Stevens and Stevens-Townsend-Murphy party left Council Shelley Hescock Bluffs, Iowa in 1844. They were headed for California with 27 wagons and a guide [email protected] named Caleb Greenwood. Caleb was accompanied by his two oldest sons, John Steve Johns and Brit. Caleb knew the west well from all his years trapping and living with the [email protected] Indians. When they crossed South Pass, Wyoming, Caleb showed them a shortcut Doug Leslie that bypassed Fort Bridger. This saved them about 85 miles and five or six days [email protected] travel. This route for many years was known as the Greenwood Cutoff. Tom Neri [email protected] Continued on page 4 Kristin Stuart [email protected] River Park Review is published 6 times per year and is available to all River Park residents at no charge. riverparksacramento.net April 2015 2 Homebrewers in River Park by Eric Schranz The craft beer scene is now he’s happy with six or eight batches each year, expanding like wild yeast, but many of which are shared with neighbors. many people in River Park have This author has been lucky to live near a home been brewing at home long brewer for the past ten years as well. Adam Bursch before it was cool. brews fruit ales, among others, and has been A recent question posted on River doing so since college. He warns that styles with Park social media pages received high sugar content are a bit more dangerous, as over twenty energetic responses he’s had a five gallon glass “carboy” explode in his from brewers, neighbors, relatives of home brewers, guest room during the process. Adam derives a and those wondering how to get involved. Chances personal satisfaction from producing his own beer, are, you’re just a few degrees away from knowing loves sharing bottles with neighbors, and is always someone in River Park who’s got a fresh batch of available to share knowledge and wisdom about the ale ready for tasting. brewing process. For those not familiar with the process, there are A fair amount of labor goes into a batch, and that different methods to brewing your own beer, ranging work often includes large buckets of hot liquid, from the easy “beer in a bag” kits, to the challenging stirring, mashing, measuring, and cleaning. Most all-grain brewing. Most brewers produce five gallons brewers prefer not to do it alone. Offering to per batch, each requiring 2-6 weeks before it’s ready share stories and beer is usually enough to entice to hit your lips. Ingredients for a batch will run $30- neighbors and friends to help in the process. Many $60, not including the equipment. say that’s often a catalyst for them to try to brew on Home brewers have a solid understanding of their own. proteins, hops, yeasts, boiling, fermenting, and Equipment and ingredients can be purchased online though many have a science background, they or at local homebrew stores. Josh says, “Many insist, “anyone can do it,” using information available brewers are DIYers and come up with little tricks on the internet. They all have strong opinions on and tools to make their systems work. That’s one taste, ingredients, and beer styles, but the one thing of the most interesting things about brewing with they all share is a deep appreciation for the social othersyou can always learn something.” aspect of brewing beer and the community among If you’re interested in a River Park homebrew tour or local brewers. club, please email me at [email protected]. For five years Jeff Henderson has lived and brewed in River Park. He’s got a set up in his garage with boilers, buckets, hoses, bags of hops, grains, and sugars that all end up in his custom kegerator when they’re done.

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