This week in H’burg: Lavender
This Week in H’burg is a weekly column featuring photos and fun facts from local photographer Pierre Ratté. Each week we’ll feature a new photo from Ratté along with a fact about the subject matter of the photo.
Healdsburg Letters to the Editor, Nov. 15
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Country Roads: Market memories
Happy birthday, Healdsburg Farmers’ Market. Though 40 years old today, it required a year or two of planning and work from a set of folks, some of whom are still selling produce.
Neighbors
These three siblings grew up during Healdsburg’s Golden Era of the 1940s and 1950s. Their memories include running wild and loose on a Saturday night in the Plaza, coveting 20 cent tickets for an all-day matinee at the Aven Theater, huge Italian dinners with homemade ravioli and shopping in Garrett Hardware for bulk rope which unraveled right out of the floor.
Arts & Entertainment
Dia de Muertos lives on in Healdsburg
At Dia de Muertos—Healdsburg’s most colorful event of the year, recognized Sunday, Oct. 25 at the Plaza—Sonoma County residents showed up to remember loved ones with celebration, costumes, mementos, music and marigolds. It was the tenth local anniversary for the Mesoamerican celebration to honor the recently departed, or those who still live in memory. With a Gallery of images...
















