Vignette 286 > Jean Bedecarrax

February 10, 2022

Jean Bedecarrax, a French Basque, was born in 1879. At age 18 he immigrated to San Rafael and later married Josephine Romas, also a French Basque.  In 1904 when Jean…

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Vignette > Mrs. T

June 18, 2020

She was picking up litter on Camino Alto near the Redwoods where she lived when she said, “I want to leave the earth as I found it.” Elizabeth Cooper Terwilliger…

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Vignette > Green Gulch Ranch

July 4, 2019

In 1937, George W. Wheelwright III and fellow Harvard man Edwin Land founded a company that eventually became the Polaroid Corp. In 1945, when George was a navy pilot instructor…

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