Columns

The following snippets of history are drawn from the pages of the Healdsburg Tribune, the Healdsburg Enterprise and the Sotoyome Scimitar, and are prepared by the volunteers at the Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society.  

Change is constant

Let us ring in the new year with goodwill. Thank you to all in the ‘Burg who step up quietly to aid their fellow citizens (and animals) in our community. Please keep sending info to IDlewood 3…” at idlewood3@hbgtrib.com. “Hedda Healdsburg” wants to know all. See you in 2019.

When disorder rules the world it helps to put more order close by, as in our own domain. “A place for everything and everything in its place” assumes there actually is a place designated for those things that take up room. The problem is one of limitation. Unless we live in a house of cards, where all you do is add another lean-to, we will run  out of room if we keep adding items to our store of possessions.

"I was flying from Nepal to Bangkok when the 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar. Mid-flight on March 28, news alerts began sounding. On landing, I learned that a massive earthquake had hit Myanmar, not far from where we had been working days earlier.:

Greetings from your community library. Like so many of our dear readers, the staff at the library have been sheltering in place at home and hoping we can get back to work soon. Although the physical space of the library has been inaccessible as we address safety concerns and work with the county's public health department, we hope you have been exploring ways to make use of the library virtually.

Taking exception to protest