Cheryl Anne StappDec 23, 20203 minO Christmas Tree...Christmas was not widely celebrated in our Thirteen Colonies before the 1775-1783 American Revolution, and afterward the holiday fell...
Cheryl Anne StappDec 16, 20202 minForlorn Hope Re-enactedOn this day 174 years ago—December 16, 1846—seventeen poorly provisioned people set out across the snow-blanketed Sierra Nevada on...
Cheryl Anne StappDec 9, 20201 minThe Dragon Rocks LighthouseIn 1865, the overloaded passenger steamer Brother Jonathan suddenly encountered severe winds and rough seas after leaving San Francisco...
Cheryl Anne StappDec 2, 20201 minCalifornia's Odd Shape California’s southern border was resolved in 1848 by international treaty after the Mexican-American War, but until 1849 its northern...