White Sulphur Springs. This is the first in a four part series. Stay tuned! Just two miles west of St. Helena, lies what once was the oldest operating resort in California, White Sulphur Springs. The grounds nestled on the valley floor at the foot the Mayacamas Mountains originally spanned 640 acres of redwood groves, hot springs and “shrubbery, ferns and wildflowers of every variety.” Waterfalls cascaded down the hillsides, “making a panorama of romantic scenery not to be fo

In l990, one of the students at my community college class in Women’s History began her paper on her mother’s life this way: “If it weren’t for this assignment, I’m sure our time together would not have happened…it became the perfect opportunity to talk and ask questions I never would have thought to ask, figuring it was private, but Mother was more than willing, eager even, to answer any question I put to her.” I encouraged students in all my classes to interview family memb

The movement for women’s equality in public and private life did not begin in the 1970s. Though, those of us who participated in it might have thought so. History, we had been told, was the story of men: explorers, founding fathers, warriors. We did not learn about American women’s struggles for the right to speak, to preach, and to vote. Feminism of the seventies has been caricatured, mistaught and misunderstood. To correct the stereotypes, we need case histories of how femi