Cheryl Anne Stapp
State Fair 2023
This year, the California State Fair—touted as the State Fair & Food Festival—runs from July 14 through July 30. As in past years, the...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Jul 5
- 1 min
Old West Aphorisms
We call them Aphorisms: those pointed, succinct, pithy observations through which we express a truth or general wisdom of what is, not...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Jun 21
- 2 min
Sunkist Growers
There have been citrus groves in California since the late 18th century, when the Spanish mission-builders brought seeds with them from...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Aug 24, 2022
- 2 min
500 Acres of Beer Makings
Hundreds of Sacramento seniors still remember the acres of hop fields that stood tall along Fair Oaks Boulevard when they were kids....
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
The Finest Wines in the World
Wine is big business in California. In 4,763 wineries large and small throughout the state, California vintners produce 87% of America’s...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Apr 6, 2022
- 2 min
The Russian River
It’s called the Russian River because there were Russian settlements on the river itself and at other nearby sites from 1812 to 1841....
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Early & Ongoing Partition Troubles
California’s north-south cultural split began as early as 1821, the year Mexico won its independence from Spain and acquired the province...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Aug 25, 2021
- 2 min
Dining at an Outback Outpost
In August 1839, after several days of sailing upstream on the Sacramento River, a Swiss citizen named John Sutter arrived in the...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Aug 18, 2021
- 2 min
Golden State Cheese
There is no doubt that Americans have a passion for cheese: in snacks, sandwiches and main dishes. Why, Crayola even named one of its...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min
Land of Geographic Extremes
California’s odd shape permits its northern port city of Eureka to be the most westward city in the continental United States—yet its...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Oct 21, 2020
- 3 min
The Old Rancho del Paso
This Sacramento Valley ranch is long gone, but its colorful history is legend…and its fame still reverberates in the names of streets,...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Sep 16, 2020
- 2 min
Dressing the Stones
Today, commercial mills are complex, high-tech installations. Long ago, however, skilled artisans hand-carved granite millstones into...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
- Jul 15, 2020
- 2 min
The Next Big Gold Strike
Several weeks elapsed after the January 1848 gold discovery before people started believing it was genuine…and then events started...
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