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Posted by jeffpelline on August 7, 2019 · Leave a Comment
LEEANN BROOK FINE ART Opened in July 2015, Lee Ann Brook Fine Art is one of the first artist-owned galleries and on-site studios in Nevada County. In the heart of historic downtown Nevada City at 231 Broad Street, the gallery is housed in a brick building from the 1800s, incorporating the working studio of LeeAnn […]
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Posted by jeffpelline on November 1, 2018 · Leave a Comment
THORTON WILDER’S CLASSIC “OUR TOWN”chronicles life in a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. Like the fictional Grover’s Corners in Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, our region’s small towns — Loomis and Lincoln in the valley, Auburn, Grass Valley and Nevada City in the foothills, and Truckee in the High Sierra — […]
Filed under Art · Tagged with American River, Americana, Auburn, Bear River, California Arts Council, California Cultural District, Cultural District, Donner Memorial State park and visitors center, Downtown Lincoln Discover the charm, ExploreAuburnCA.com, Gary Snyder, Gladding McBean & Co., Grass Valley, High Hand Fruit Shed, Jeff Pelline, Lincoln, Loomis, Nevada City, Nevada Theatre, Nisenan, Old Jail Museum, Our Towns, Pioneer Monument, Truckee, Utah Phillips, Yuba River
Posted by jeffpelline on April 19, 2018 · Leave a Comment
PROSPERITY HAS COME TO OUR region in different forms, starting with the Gold Rush. “Gold was discovered just to the south of here in January 1848. You could literally pick it up in the creeks,” recalls author Jordan Fisher Smith in a recent documentary called “Redefining Prosperity: The Gold Rushes of Nevada City.” But that […]
Filed under Food · Tagged with California Arts Council, Charles Woods, Cultural District, David Osborn, Gary Snyder, Grass Valley, hippie diaspora, Jeff Pelline, Jonathan Rowe, Jordan Fife, Jordan Fisher Smith, Nevada City, nevada county bank building, new Gold Rush, Redefining Prosperity The Gold Rushes of Nevada City, Sierra foothills boomtowns, The National Exchange Hotel, The Stone House, Truckee, truckee railyard, utah philips
Posted by jeffpelline on December 4, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder is being inducted into the California Hall of Fame this week. In its biography of Snyder, the California Hall of Fame calls him “one of the most significant environmental writers of the 20th century and an influential figure in the ecology movement.” The hall notes that he has lived sustainably for […]
Posted by jeffpelline on December 4, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and First Lady Anne Gust Brown, in partnership with the California Museum, announced that Warren Winiarski will be inducted into the 11th class of the California Hall of Fame. Recognized for his global efforts to showcase and preserve the quality and history of California wine, Winiarski joins […]
Filed under Wine & Beer · Tagged with California Hall of Fame, California Museum, Gary Snyder, Governor Edmund Brown, Judgment of Paris, Spirit of California medals, Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, vintner, Warren Winiarski, Wine, wine competition
Posted by jeffpelline on July 6, 2017 · Leave a Comment
THOUGH IT’S A RURAL REGION, western Nevada County, anchored by historic Grass Valley and Nevada City, is a cultural district that rivals a much bigger city. Nevada City has more than 100 arts and cultural organizations; arts venues that attract the likes of jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, violinist Joshua Bell and singer-songwriter Willie Nelson; famous […]
Filed under Art · Tagged with arts, Bluegrass Festival, California Cultural District, California Worldfest, Chinese Cemetery, Cornish Christmas, Cultural District, Draft Horse Classic, Empire Mine State Historic Park, Firehouse No. 1 Museum, Gary Snyder, InConcert Sierra, Jeff Pelline, Joshua Bell, Judith Lowry, KVMR Celtic Festival, Miners Foundry Cultural Center, mini-Austin, Music in The Mountains, Native American artist, Nevada City Chinese New Year Parade, Nevada City Constitution Day Parade, Nevada City Film Festival, Nevada County Arts Council, Nevada County Economic Resource Council, Nevada County Fair, Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum, Nevada Theatre, Nisenan, Nisenan Tribute Trail Bridge, Pelton Wheel, Sierra College, South Yuba River, Strawberry Music Festival, Summerfest, The Center for the Arts, Utah Phillips, Victorian Christmas, visit Grass Valley, visit Nevada City, visit Nevada County, Wild and Scenic Film Festival
Posted by jeffpelline on July 6, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Grass Valley-Nevada City in the Gold Country, and Truckee in the High Sierra are among the 14 finalists recommended for designation as State Cultural Districts, a major coup for the region, Sierra FoodWineArt has learned. The recommendation was included in an agenda packet for the California Arts Council’s upcoming board meeting, which was quietly posted […]
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Posted by jeffpelline on April 23, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“LOCAL FOOD FROM LOCAL PEOPLE, since 1881” is the motto of the iconic Oakville Grocery in Napa Valley, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the oldest continually operating grocery store in California. The foothills has its own share of country grocery stores with a storied past—most notably Mother Truckers on the San […]
Filed under Food · Tagged with Allen Ginsberg, Bruce Bottrell, country grocer store, Eli Brottrell, Gary Snyder, Governor Brown, Grass Valley, Jeff Pelline, Linda Ronstadt, local food, Local People, Lucy Bottrell, Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, Mother Truckers, Natural Selection, Nevada County, Oakville Grocery, organic, organic grocer, organic grocery store, Roger Hodgson, Rosalie Sorrels, San Juan Ridge, Sara Bottrell, The Country Store, the Ridge
Posted by jeffpelline on March 19, 2017 · Leave a Comment
TO LAUNCH NATIONAL POETRY Month, the Nevada County Arts Council is hosting the inaugural Sierra Poetry Festival on April 1. Activities will include a keynote address by California’s Poet Laureate Dana Gioia, along with a plethora of local, national and international poets and performers. The group includes Al Young, Genny Lim, Molly Fisk, Maya Khosla, […]
Filed under FWA blog · Tagged with Al Young., California Arts Council, California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia, Eliza Tudor, festival, Gail Brandels, Gary Snyder, Genny Lem, Jeff Pelline, Julie Chiarelli, Julie Valin, Kat Kerrey, KVMR, Maya Khosla, MK Chavez, Molly Fisk, Nevada County Arts, Nevada County Arts Council, Nevada County Poet Laureate, poetry, poetry festival, Poets in Schools, pop-up poetry, Sands Hall, Sierra College, Sierra Poetry Festival, Soul of Place
Posted by jeffpelline on January 12, 2017 · Leave a Comment
LIKE NATURALIST JOHN MUIR, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Gary Snyder’s words about the Sierra point to its extraordinary beauty, ecological importance and rich cultural history. In The High Sierra of California, Snyder’s prose, Tom Killion’s woodcut artistry, as well as Muir’s writings, capture the multiple facets of the region. The two famous artists—who share an appreciation […]
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