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Napa County s new poet laureate, Marianne Lyon, is a guest speaker at the monthly Napa Valley Writers meeting and will lead a poetry-writing event at the Yountville Community Center. Also, a new artists collective has a grand opening.
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Millennialsâ characteristics, in general terms, are those of a generation that is highly educated, entrepreneurial, self-confident, technologically savvy and ambitious.
âOh, Iâm a classic millennial,â said Sarita Lopez, 35, with a laugh. âIâm all those things, although I wish I had the self-confidence to say Iâm self-confident.â
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She has every reason to be self-confident. Lopez has built a thriving business from the ground up, is a published fiction author, and cares about her community by serving on several boards, including the Library Commission.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle was a sixth-grader when she first visited Jack London State Park on a class field trip to view the Glen Ellen âBeauty Ranchâ of the famous writer.
There you can view the remains of his Wolf House, destroyed by fire before it was finished, the cottage where he died, and the rock marking the remains of the man who declared he would ârather be ashes than dust.â
It was some years later that Dunkle began to wonder about the woman who had lived in the other stone house on the grounds. Charmian Kittredge London, Jackâs widow, and his step-sister, Eliza Smith, built the imposing House of Happy Walls. After Charmianâs death in 1955, it became, as she had wished, a museum, and a tribute to the Londonsâ work and their life together.