Community Keeps Red Bluff’s Kelly-Griggs House and Its Stories Alive… The Victorian homes of Red Bluff have long been part of the charm of the town. Drives up and down …
What It Could Become
Sam and Wendy Van Kirk Revive a 1931 Downtown Redding Home with Heart… If the walls of your home could talk, what tales of joy, adventure, mystery, hardship and transition …
Sign of the Times
Vintage Greyhound Sign Reclaims Place in Redding History… It was a sign that helped put Redding on the map, a navy blue and neon beacon that said this city is connected …
In Full Bloom
Behrens-Eaton House Unveils Restored Victorian Garden… The Behrens-Eaton House Museum has long served as a carefully curated celebration of Redding’s olden days and, in keeping with the late Hon. Richard …
Happy Space
Finding Nostalgia at the Callahan Emporium… You’d be forgiven if you’ve never heard of Callahan, an unincorporated community along State Route 3, population 50 or so. The nearest “bigger” town …
Echos of the Past
Taking the Field at Red Bluff Civil War Days… Flash back to the early 1860s when men rode horses, carried muskets and charged each other with bayonets wearing hot wool …
Baking for the Ballot
Suffrage Angel Cake… The suffrage movement in the United States began in 1848 when women demanded the right to vote at the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. It …
Both Service & Society
The First Woman in the US Forest Service, Hallie Daggett… In Etna’s city park sits a little wooden cabin, its simple exterior belying the complicated and trailblazing woman who once …
Taking Hollywood by Storm
The Amazing Career of Etna’s Anita Loos…. She was born in Sisson (now Mount Shasta) in 1889 and buried in Etna in 1981, but for six of her nine decades, …
Romantic At Heart
The Victorian Gillis House in Yreka… Romanticism as a movement may have actually predated the Victorian period, but it’s hard not to fall in love with a Victorian house. That’s …