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Grant School, Circa 1919 Grade School Memories

SPRINQ 1994 • HEALDSBVRQ MVSEVM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY• ISSVE 47 In This Issue ■ ■

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Cirade School Memories 5 May 11 Dinner at Madrona Manor

June4 Barn Sale Society News 9 Sept.25 Autumn Fest, Fieldstone Winery Of Special

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Coming July 19th: A special exhibit on marriage Healdsburs Historical Society and courtship rituals. Recently, Ed Langhart, Founder the museum received two new wedding dresses to add to our 1994 Officers already wonderful collection of bridal attire. So, we thought President Norbert Babin 433-1552 this summer a perfect Vice-president John Cross 433-6555 opportunity to explore some of Recording Secretary Phil Smith 433-6594 the customs which surrounded Correspondence Fern Naber 433-3811 wedding and courtship in the late nineteenth and early Treasurer Richard Iverson 431 -8088 twentieth centuries, and at the same time, display our new Board of Directors treasures. If you've been curious as to when some of the Verna Lafon 433-2668 Bob Curtis 433-4614 wedding and courtship customs Susan Bierwirth 433-5432 Don Reukema 433-0384 we follow took shape, be sure to June Smith 539-2764 Thelma Frey 433-3197 stop by the Museum this Ginny Canfi ld 431 -7706 Betsy Bippart 433-9337 summer and explore them with us. Darla Meeker 433-3458 Peggy Rawlins 431-1109 Eleanor Zak 433-3059 Betty Reukema 433-0384 Recorder Staff (Gift Shop) (Membership) Editor: Darla Meeker Assistant: Gabe Fraire Staff Layout: Steve Perkins Claire Rithner 431-3325 Printing: Solo Press (Curator)

Spring 1994 • Russian River Recorder • Page Two ~ [E [E MUSEUM NEWS Claire Rithner

This was a busy winter at the Museum as we researched and designed the current exhibit, The Hours We Give to Study: a History of Education in Northern Sonoma County. Mary Beth Shaw, who coordinates an association of museums, California Exhibition Resources Alliances (CERA), was hired to curate the exhibit, and in the process, train me in exhibit construction. Researching Healdsburg's schools was a great way to begin learning about Healdsburg's rich history, since the schools have been such an integral part of the town's development. One of the best aspects of this exhibit was the large amount of volunteer support Mary Beth and I received. Longtime community members such as Earl Osborn, Wayne Barrett, and Bill Caldwell helped us Flower Maids at Healdsburg Grammar School fill in our historical knowledge by answering (Circa 1920) (many) questions and giving oral histories. Museum volunteers Dawn Moser, Katherine The following generous people have Popich, Judy Babin, Dave Van Winkle, Bob donated artifacts to the Museum's collection Rawlins, and Ken Mullen all lent their since our last publication: individual expertise to particular tasks. They each saved Mary Beth and me hours Jean M. King of time and worry. Special thanks to Robert Vivian Hull Nunes and Lavella Hill who drove all the way from Virginia Hall Higbee Modesto to deliver some prized family June Smith artifacts. Darla Budworth acted as the John Cross Museum's liaison to the generation of Bob Curtis Healdsburg High School students who Catherine Curtis graduated in the fifties, and remain Pat Schmidt unconvinced that their memorabilia Wayne Barrett belongs in a museum yet! And, as always, Priscilla Colton-Ewing Bob Jones traveled near and far to retrieve Bill Caldwell necessary artifacts. Robert Hill Many thanks to everyone who helped, it Mae Malone was a big job made much lighter by the Estate of Cleone Stevens Tilley tremendous amount of volunteer support we Healdsburg Senior Center/ Estate of Anna received. Swisher

Spring 1994 • Russian River Recorder• Page Three President's Address Society, and push forward to preserve that Nobert Babin rich history. Thanks to all of you for your continuing Since the last Russian River Recorder support and activities on behalf of the the Healdsburg Historical Society ha~ Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society. taken over the operation of our Museum from the City of Healdsburg. Approval of this change was adopted at our annual meeting in January. We have, with the approval of the membership, amended the by-laws of the Society to reflect this momentous change. The future of the Society and the Museum looks bright, and with your membership, active participation, and donations, it will be even brighter. We have established several committees to assist the Board of Directors in moving us along into the Twenty-First Century. Without slighting any committee not mentioned, I want to tell you that the membership, fund­ raising, and volunteer committees are at the forefront of our efforts to ensure the success Single Woman Homesteader we all desire and anticipate. The Healdsburg Peggy Rawlins/Museum Outreach Museum Volunteer Committee ( commonly known as HMVA, or "HUMVA") needs your Leona Dixon Cox, 92-year-old rancher assistance. This active group is involved and author of four books, arrived with the docents, exhibits, the gift shop, oral from her Yuba County ranch, minus her history, outreach, crafts, and numerous usual mode of transportation, a Yamaha other aspects of the Society's activities. motorcycle, which she rides since the loss of Under the leadership of Claire Rithner, a leg several years ago. Cox drove here in a our Curator, our Museum is now open six van full of her books to sell and sign at her days a week, and will provide even more Healdsburg Museum and Levin & Co service to the community than it has in the bookstore appearances. At the Foss Creek past. School,· Cox spoke to the children on their The long-range planning committee will library day, thrilling them with her tales of be submitting a report to the membership at homesteading and riding the Sonoma range the next annual meeting setting forth all of on her horse during the 1930's the goals that our Society will want to meet Continuing her two day stay in by the turn of the century. With the Healdsburg, Cox spoke on Saturday understanding that the youth of the morning to a full house at the library and community are history makers, presently, then signed her book "Single Woman and in the future, we look toward a goal of Homesteader" for admiring listeners. Many getting the younger people more actively Healdsburg residents remember Cox, having involved in our Society. With the long and gone to school or picnicked with her on her illustrious history of the Hispanic presence Sonoma County ranch. in the Healdsburg area, we will increase our Cox was brought to Healdsburg by the efforts to have that segment of the new Museum outreach program and, by all community become actively involved in the accounts, her visit was a success.

Spring 1994 • Russian River Recorder • Page Four [HJ (» IL IE IE Guilford School Memories, Osborn, attended the original Guilford Circa 1932 School, between 1894 and 1900, when it was located on Red Winery Road. "I was 8 years "No matter how far removed, even amid the old, in the third grade, and very unhappy wildest and most rugged mountains, there will about having to change schools". be found the school house." For Albertina (Nina) Zanzi, her first day History of Sonoma County, 1880 as a first-grader at Guilford was awesome and exciting. Citing the eight years she spent at Guilford as the "most memorable of uilford School was one of 25 one and my life," Nina recounts the events that led Gtwo-room schoolhouses that once up to that special first day of school. "In my dotted the outlying hills and valleys of the preschool years, I had floated through a Healdsburg area. Erected sometime before carefree Land of Oz in my Dutch-style cover­ 1870, it was first located at 5720 Red Winery ~lls. Then, suddenly, my mother was sewing Road, where it also served as a Sunday httle blue and white and pink frocks. And School, until 1896, when the Alexander my father bought me a lunch pail. Armed Valley Church was built. with a few phrases of English that I'd In 1900, plans were made to move gleaned from my older brother, I, too, in Guilford School to a site alongside Gird time, was able to string together whole Creek, where Highway 128 makes a 90- sentences." degree right angle turn, intersected on the west by Wasson Lane. At the time the straight stretch of road from the Alexander Valley Store to the turn was known as Beeson Lane. Many Guilford School students, as well as one of its teachers, still live in Alexander Valley, or in the town of Healdsburg. Their combined recollections of typical school-day activities more than likely mirror similar experiences of those students who attended other Healdsburg area schoolhouses of the same era, which bore such familiar names as Pine Ridge, Lambert, Felta and Sotoyome. Although Guilford School was demolished , its legacy as an independent school district in the Healdsburg area lives on in the memories of its former grade-school pupils. Guilford School, Circa 1916

Entering Guilford The School Building nlike most of the one-room H My family moved to the Guilford U School District from the Sotoyome schoolhouses in the outlying Healdsburg area, Guilford boasted two District in 1928," recalls Ruby Osborn rooms. Because of their different Wasson, whose mother, Reta Frellson

Spring 1994 • Russian River Recorder • Page Five architectural styles, Ruby Wasson believes She also remembers that the wooden that they were built at different times. schoolroom floors were impregnated with "The older room was like most of the oil, which, if you fell on them left "... an oil one-room schools in the county," she says. stain on your clothes forever." "It had a very high ceiling, windows on one side, two doors in front that opened out onto A Typical School Day a porch and into two anterooms. The anterooms were at the front of the building. H oays at Guilford School started with They were small rooms where we hung our the 'Pledge of Allegiance'," coats and sweaters and left our lunch pails. according to Dorothy Ackerman One anteroom also had the rope from the Ruonavaara, who, along with het brother, bell in it." Eldon, attended Guilford School. After a The bell itself was located outside above patriotic song was sung, the students, who the anteroom in the belfry. It was rung at were lined up in rows in front of the school's 9:00 a.m., to summon the students to class, main steps, filed in to their respective and then again after each recess and, once classrooms. again, after lunch. Nina Zanzi remembers that one of her Another Guilford alumnus, Robert teachers, Mrs. Georgianna Norton, "revved Young, recalls that the only time the school up" her students by asking them to report bell didn't ring as expected was the morning on a brief newspaper article, or to tell a after Halloween. "I don't remember that we good joke. She also fondly recalls "... my did any trick-or-treating," he recounts, "but little desk with its iron-scroll design, and we often would walk out around the Valley blond, hardwood surface. "Now and then," and by the school. We'd climb up in the bell she muses, "I meet one in some antique tower and tie the bell so it couldn't be rung shop where it stands in patient dignity, the next day to call us all to class." holding a potted plant." While the older students, fifth through Befitting the times, Guilford School eighth grades, attended class in the older provided its students with a broad room of Guilford School, the younger curriculum: History, Geography, Arithmetic children, first through fourth grades, spent & Mathematics, Physical Education, their school day in the second, newer room. Grammar, Penmanship, Arts & Crafts, This room, according to Ruby Wasson, had Literature, and Music. "Music was supplied a lower ceiling, wider and lower windows, monthly by a district teacher who traveled and lower blackboards. from school to school, " reports Dorothy A long, narrow corridor, which was used Ruonavaara. "The one I recall most vividly for storage, connected the two classrooms. was Mrs. Close, a very proper and exacting There was also a back porch and two rest lady. One day, as she was demonstrating in rooms, as well as a well-stocked library and song what she wanted us to learn, we heard a first aid area. an additional 'howl' from Fido, who was One of the "glowing" features that was waiting outside the door. Although we tried found in both rooms, and mentioned by to suppress our giggles, it was embarrassing both Ruby Wasson and Nina Zanzi, was the for our teacher." standard wood stove, with a circular metal Shirley Osborn, who entered Guilford in shield surrounding it. "It was supposed to the fifth grade when his family transferred circulate the heat," remarks Ruby, "but we from Sotoyome District, mentions that "Kick all sat around it on cold days and 'kept the the Can", "Annie-Over", and marbles, in stove warm' instead." season, were among the recess and lunch-

Spring 1994 • Russian River Recorder• Page Six time games favored by Guilford students. He were dismissed at 3:00 p.m, while the four also notes that "... Guilford had a upper grades remained in school until 4:00 court and a court that we hadn't p.m., Monday through Thursday. But, on had before, at Sotoyome." Fridays, according to Ruby Wasson, they got Built by Guilford parents, the asphalt out at 3:00 p.m. tennis court was used on weekends as well While both Ruby and her brother, as during school. This early start on tennis, Shirley, remember hearing how their mother Dorothy Ruonavaara believes, was the basis walked along the fence rai'lings to get to of a strong tennis team when Guilford school when the ground was wet and students entered Healdsburg High School, muddy, they usually rode their bikes to upon completion of the 8th grade. school and home again, as did many of Meanwhile, after a rousing lunch-time their classmates. "On the way home we game of tennis, or basketball, often stopped and played in Gird Creek," Guilford students returned to their says Robert Young. "It had a lot of beautiful classrooms to rest their heads on their desks trout, so we'd bring along a burlap bag or as they listened to their teachers read aloud two, prop open the end with boughs, and the continuing episodes of the current story then chase the fish into what looked like or poem, with Longfellow, Stevenson, and good hiding places, but which were really London being well-represented during this our bags. We caught quite a few that way." peaceful and relaxing interlude of an Guilford boys and girls, alike, also played otherwise full and busy school day. basketball with Geyserville Grammar typical Guilford school day, which School, according to Shirley Osborn, as well Abegan at 9:00 a.m. for the entire as with Alexander, Lytton, and student body, ended at 2:00 p.m. for second Maacama schools, during after-school and third-graders. Third and fourth-graders hours.

Photo Identification - Guilford School, 1931-32 (Photograph courtesy of Dorothy Ruonavaara and Nina Zanzi) Back row left to right: Max Smith, Shirley Osborn, Wilber Hart, Robert Young, Floyd Eachus, Fred Wasson, George Griffith Middle row: Dario Zanzi, Marion Young, Ruby Osborn, Dorothy Ackerman, Eleanor Fambrini, Nina Zanzi, Gladys Kitchen, Mrs. Mabel Eachus (teacher), Eldon Ackerman Front row: George Wilson, Phil Wasson, Elmer Hart, Charlie Hart, Lorenzo Cavallo, Olga Cavallo, Lorraine Frandenburg, Elva Frandenburg, __ Hart, ____? Hart, ?

Spring 1994 • Russian River Recorder • Page Seven Elma Goodman, who taught at Guilford, a beautiful dress. And Nina Zanzi was my still remembers the time she piled her pupils 'Fairy Godmother."' Louis Wasson, who into the back of a flatboard truck with served as one of three Guilford school board sideboards, and traveled to Grant School, trustees for fifteen years, played the part of which is located south of Healdsburg near Santa Claus for many years at this annual Foppiano Winery, for their very first event. game. "Back then you didn't think about insurance," she says with a Play Day/End of School Activities laugh. "And we were nervy enough to say that we'd come back again for another lay Day was held once a year in the game." Pspring at one of the following Along with Elma Goodman and participating schools: Alexander, Maacama, Georgianna Norton, there were several other Rogers, Lytton, and Guilford. teachers that are remembered fondly by According to Dorothy Ruonavaara, Guilford Guilford students: Mabel Eachus, Lois students studied wildflowers in preparation Neugent, Gladys Wasson Smith and Vivian for the annual "Play Day" wildflower Wasson. contest. There were also games, skits, and a picnic lunch to look forward to. Guilford's Christmas Plays One year, Ruby Wasson remembers that several Guilford students performed a dance U Christmas was the big time of the entitled, ''Tip-Toe Through the Tulips", for year," according to Nina Zanzi, both the May Day celebration at Geyserville "when the entire student body became a and at a Play Day presentation. "Two girls Hollywood production company... creating were dressed as Dutch children," she the set, the decorations, making the reminisces. "The boys were green leaves and costumes (with the help of moms), several other girls were the tulips. We wore rehearsing the cast for the 'Opening Night' green skirts and colored petals up around presentation of the selected play to family our faces. Mine were red." and friends." Throughout the school year, Guilford Looking back, Nina wonders who was parents were very active, and held a P.T. A. most nervous on Opening Night: The pupils meeting once a month in the evenings, at or the parents. Whatever the case may have the schoolhouse. "After the meeting, our been, she adds, that "... the evening was parenfs played cards," Shirley Osborn always received with great enthusiasm." remembers. "In bad weather, the kids played Ruby Wasson also enjoyed these in the other room and, in good weather, we Christmas programs, and particularly usually played hide and seek outside. We remembers a play called "The Sleeping always liked P.T. A. nights." Beauty", which Mrs. Georgianna Norton On the last day of school before summer directed. vacation, there was a baseball game The cast included Elizabeth Norton as between the fathers and the students at the Sleeping Princess; Lloyd Patterson as Guilford School. The mothers provided Prince Charming; Ruby's brother, Myrl lemonade and, sometimes, ice cream. Osborn, as Blue Beard (who borrowed a There were three students in Dorothy sword from friends to look the part); Shirley Ruonavaara's eighth grade graduating Osborn, as an animal trainer; and Max class. "The time at Guilford School, " she Smith as the "trained bear." "I was says, "was a good basis for future schooling Cinderella," Ruby recalls, "and I got to wear and establishing lifetime friends."

Spring 1994 • Russian River Recorder • Page Eight Even Ruby Wasson, who as a third­ Healdsburg Grammar School Memories, grader, was "very unhappy" about moving circa 1927-1933 to Guilford, now looks back on all of the fun times she had there. In fact, she married one June Smith of the boys she went to school with at une Maher Smith, whose childhood Guilford, Fred Wasson. home was directly across Tucker Street In 1949, the Guilford, Alexander, and J from Healdsburg Grammar School, is a Maacama districts consolidated their efforts contemporary of the Guilford School to form the Alexander Unified School students featured in this issue. District. At the time of unification, two June entered kindergarten in 1927, and Guilford alumni, Robert Young and Fred really enjoyed going to school each morning Wasson, were school board trustees for their as well as the happy hours she and her grade-school alma mater. brother spent playing on the playground Elizabeth Norton Marchand, whose equipment with the other kids in the mother, Georgianna Norton, was one of neighborhood. There was "... sliding on the Guilford's teachers as well as its principal for slide, swinging on the bars and rings, up four years, sums up the way Guilford and downing on the teeter-totter, and students felt about their school. "We all getting dizzy on three different merry-go­ loved it," she says, "and enjoyed our time rounds." there very much. It was just home." There was also plenty of room for games of all sorts, including basketball, which became a favorite after-school sport when Contributors to this article include: Dorothy someone left a basketball for repair at her Ruonavaara, Ruby Wasson, Shirley Osborn, father's leather shop and forgot to pick it up. Elma Goodman, Robert Young, Albertina (Nina) The schoolyard itself was lined with locust Zanzi, Fritz Kennedy, Elizabeth Marchand, trees, recalls June, and "... their fragrant Lorraine Kimes Owen, Dick Hafner, Mr. and blossoms in the spring and their cooling Mrs. Jim Voss. shade in the summer were also a part of my Compiled by Darla Meeker. school experience." Built of red brick and gray stone, Healdsburg Grammar School was a "handsome" building, three stories high. Please Take Note "There was a wide flight of stairs from the front entrance to the principal's office and We did not feature as many photos of some of the classrooms," June notes. "But we Guilford School as we would have always used the side entrances, with boys lined up on one side of the schoolhouse and liked to, because we have very few in girls on the other." There was also an east wing and a west the Museum's archive. If you or wing, both one story tall, on the sides of the someone you know have photos of main building and connected to it with covered walkways, according to June. "The Guilford School, we would like to east wing housed the kindergarten room borrow them and make a copy. and three primary classrooms. The auditorium, complete with a real stage, Please call Claire at 431-3325. including curtains and a balcony on three sides, was in the west wing."

Spring 1994 • Russian River Recorder • Page Nine Healdsburg Grammar School, Circa 1927

Along with her Guilford School remained intact. counterparts, June fondly remembers In September 1935, the brand-new participating in musical productions. There Mission -style Healdsburg Elementary School was an operetta at least once a year, was opened at the corner of First and North involving all of the classes, from Streets. "It was really hi-tech for those days," kindergarten through eighth grade. "I can June recalls. "When we gave reports, we remember my mother sewing my costumes went to the principal1s office and spoke into out of crepe paper," June says. "Once I a microphone, and our words reached our played a Dutch doll, once a sunbeam, and classroom via intercom." another time a pansy." Cooking class met once a week in the In 1933, when June was in the sixth modern .cafeteria. But the only things June grade, a disastrous earthquake struck remembers cooking were cream of tomato southern California, destroying many school soup and stewed prunes. "After all," she says buildings and, as June remarks, "... causing with a laugh, "Healdsburg was 'the buckle of every school trustee in California to have the prune belt'". nightmares." Several years ago, the last remaining Soon after, the local school board closed vestiges of Healdsburg Grammar School Healdsburg Grammar School, and June disappeared, when St. John's School, which attended half-day, afternoon sessions at the now occupies the Tucker Street site, razed the American Legion Hall on Center Street. original one-story wings that once graced Meanwhile the old brick and stone three­ the imposing three-story structure. "Now story schoolhouse, was torn down, brick by nothing remains of the old school, 11 says brick. The single-story wings, however, June. "Not even the locust trees.

Spring 1994 • Russian River Recorder • Page Ten [E [E w Barn Volunteered Meetings im Fagan, member of The Historical HMVA meetings are on the 2nd Monday JSociety Fund-Raising Committee, has of each month at the Senior Center, 10-12 volunteered his barn (next to Madrona a.m. All members are invited. Manor) and his leadership for a barn sale Research, an inventory of artifacts and on Saturday, June fourth. This is just two newspaper indexing continues. In addition, months away. They say, "Don't call it there are plans to involve school children rummage," but we need all your "excesses" and senior citizens with outreach and tours. from your attic, basement, closets and In the works are a volunteer handbook, an garage. Let's call it "Barnage". Please call in-museum study course for our docents, Jim Fagan, (431-2252) to arrange for pick­ and plans to exhibit individual and group up or drop-off after May 1. This could be a collections in the west display area. great fundraiser for the museum. We are directing our thinking toward ways to increase visitor attendance, museum HMVA - Volunteer Report membership and, most important now, Betsy Bippart, Volunteer Coordinator projects to raise money. Nanci Gunnerson is n the last installment, Winter '93, working with the Historical Society's ISusan Bierwirth reported that a potluck Fundraising Committee to improve old ideas luncheon planned for docents and and develop new ones. volunteers might lead to organization. And Everyone is looking forward to another of it did. In December, our group was approved Todd Muir's fabulous dinners at Madrona as a museum support organization to be Manor, Wednesday evening, May 11th. This called "The Healdsburg Museum Volunteer will be a very special celebration. Space is Association" or HMVA. limited. Make reservations early. Two new ideas are under way. The Barn HMVA Committee Roster: Sale is described elsewhere in The Recorder Elizabeth Neal Assistant Coordinator and The Healdsburg Museum Instant Wine June Smith Secretary, Newsletter Cellar details will follow in a few weeks. Peggy Rawlins Community Outreach Here's the bottom line: We need Susan Bierwirth Docent Calendar "Barnage", members and money, not Catherine Curtis Floral, Barn Sale necessarily in that order. June Jones, Rhea Bain Hostess Carol Clark Mailings, Volunteer Hours Healdsburg Historical Society Bob Rawlins Mr. Fix-it Membership List Shirley Davis Museum Training Alice & Jack Grove Oral History As of March 30, 1994 Geri Meyers Handbook roster Nanci Gunnerson Ways and Means f you are a member, please check the Iother side to make certain that your Board Liasons: name is listed below. If you don't see a Eleanor Zak Gift Shop name of someone you think may be Betty Reukema Membership interested in joining, why not invite them to Susan Bierwirth Museum Administration become a member today? And remember: Ginny Canfield Public Relations gift memberships are available.

Spring 1 9 9 4 • Russian River Recorder CO) cc !E lT li !E Our Mission Steve Perkins - Solo Press Gary Watson Amy Neel Gordon Gloria Christensen he purpose of the Healdsburg Patty Melim Michael & Carol Herbert TMuseum and Historical Society is to Dee & Bill Anderson Walt Weggenmann record and document the history of the Darla Meeker June T. Anderson greater Healdsburg area through the Vivian Nunes Hollis & Pat Black collection and preservation of historical Sandy Hagan Kaye Rogers materials; to foster the appreciation of our Jed Mitchell Muriel Holmes local history and culture through programs Doris Lorenz Eugenia Ohman and activities; and to provide for, and Marda Mitchell manage the Healdsburg Museum, Edwin Langhart, founder. Memorial Donations Listed below are some very concrete ways Thank you in which we are currently implementing the In Memory of Gladys Jacobsen: mission statement: Lois and Guerdon Miller *Our special exhibit, which interprets aspects of the history of education in the In memory of Eloise Prince Liston: Healdsburg area, and our upcoming exhibit Jack and Helen Anderson on wedding and courtship rituals which will Joseph and Margaret Otterson feature many local wedding dresses. In Memoriam *The "flashback" column in the We regretfully acknowledge the following Healdsburg Tribune , which chronicles events society members who have passed away: of days-gone-by, as reported in the local Edna Wilson McDowell newspaper. Eloise Prince Liston *The availability of on-site research facilities. Gift Shop News *Cataloguing and conservation of Eleanor Zak artifacts relating to Healdsburg's history t this time of year, I find myself New Members Adoing lots of planning and ordering Nancy Campbell Charlotte Damkroger for the Museum Gift Shop. Co-manager, Kurt & Joandell Hahn Bernice Young Marty Pogue, is currently searching the local Bob & Elizabeth Hawthorne Betty Tyler area for appropriate and unique items made J.R. & Darlene Ferguson Keith Olsen by crafts people and artisans. We are Richard Lehrmann Mildred Gagliardo particularly looking for items of historic Robert & Mae Malone Ann Devincenzi interest, such as old-fashioned dolls, toys, and Karen Thomas Lee & Gladys Engleke jewelry. If you, or someone you know, makes Myrtle Powell Richard & Donna Garvey such items, please contact Eleanor Zak, 433- Emma Rice James & Barbara Fagan 3059. Please note that the shop has limited Jim Brush Bill & Dawn Moser space so large pieces are not appropriate. Eric Drew Mr. & Mrs. Alvie Rochester Gentle reminder: Do plan to shop at the Mr. & Mrs. Edward Reynolds Lyn Starr Healdsburg Museum Gift Shop. All monies George & Joy Wolfe Russ Naber are used to ensure that the Museum remains Root & Eastwood - Wme & Spirits Carole Strech the jewel of Healdsburg.

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