You definitely know you are not stepping into a library the moment you push open the door and the authentic railroad crossing bell clangs and lights flash.
Posts I have written about local and regional history, people, places, documents, maps, Sacramento, Placer, and California.
Auburn Quarry Crags Cave Valley Trail Hike
It feels like a miniaturized Yosemite when you first walk into Auburn Quarry Crags climbing park.
Bugs Bunny Mid Century Modern Cartoons
The post war boom and reinvention of America with mid century modern architecture is most evident in the Bugs’ cartoon Long – Haired Hare in 1949.
South Yuba River Covered Bridge and Trail Hike
The big attraction is the covered bridge built in 1862 after floods washed out the previous structure. The Point Defiance trail loop provides great views and takes you through a variety of ecological settings.
Mining Bars, Viaduct along American River Folsom Lake
South of Horseshoe bar you will come upon what is referred to as the NFD viaduct. This is an impressive structure built to conduct the water over a small ravine. Easily 15 feet tall and 40 feet in length, large granite blocks were carefully stacked to create what looks like a dam.
Tunnel or Restore the Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta
My question to those opposed to the tunnels or canal is, “Restore the delta to which point in time?” Our current Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta is a 20th century artifice solely constructed for agricultural with no thought of the ecology.
My OCD collection of The Simpsons
Over the next ten years I would be a fairly ardent collector of any Simpsons’ item that fell within my budget and appealed to my sense of humor.
Carmichael horse carriage ride through Ancil Hoffman Park
As carriage driver John Walker directed Jesse to pick up his gait across the wet green grass of Ancil Hoffman Park, a passenger riding on the carriage becomes little more than dead weight as the carriage bumps and jostles you over the uneven path.
Pioneer Express Trail: Rattlesnake bar to Birdsall Dam
If you want to actually get to the base of the Birdsall Dam site, which was my goal, you have to be more adventurous. You must leave the Pioneer Express Trail and hike around the American River bottoms.
Folsom to Granite Bay: Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad
It was perhaps the first publicly finance railroad in California. Unfortunately, the Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad was cut short by an even larger publicly financed railroad know as the Central Pacific. (Click on the photos to enlarge, full gallery of images at end of post.) Iron horse for commerce As soon as the Sacramento Valley Railroad […]
