Meet the neighbors! Fog Valley's Gold Rush era luminaries alive again for The Petalumans of Yesteryear's annual cemetery walk (in partnership with the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum) reflecting on life in 19th Century Petaluma and surrounding area - the perfect backdrop for my Fog Valley non-fictional food history books.
Brainerd Jones (architect), Lyman Byce (Petaluma incubator co), Captain Baylis (river captain), Isaac Wickersham, Esq (lawyer, farmer, banker-entrepreneur), Addie Atwater (Civic leader, mover and shaker), Clara McNear (First wife of pioneering founding father John McNear) and William Howard Pepper (orchard and nursery man) captivated a large crowd with abridged versions of their colorful life stories.
Lyman Byce - co-inventor and marketer of the world's first chicken egg incubator.
Isaac Wickersham in front of his family's stately resting place in historic Cypress Hill Cemetery.
Addie Atwater, founder of the Petaluma Ladies Improvement Society, who made Walnut Park and a permanent home for the city's fledgling library happen.
John McNear established Cypress Hill Cemetery in a serene, park like setting in which to pay tribute to his wife Clara McNear, who was laid to rest at the highest point of this peaceful property in 1859.
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