Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Ally Quest
Love my membership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation! It keeps me up to date with news in the preservation world, introduces me to new places, and helps support the kind of historic preservation that's important to me.
I found Ally Quest as I was "thumbing" through my E Newsletter from the Trust. At first glance I thought this would be me and my blog on video. Travel and history - Ally's thing and mine. But if you know me and my blog and check out Ally and her video, we're not exactly twin like. Yet we evidently do have something in common.
As Ally says: "Experience what it's like to live in another decade. Explore towns that time has forgotten, restaurants that are really relics of the past, hotels with a place in history, significant spots that still exist today and hold a real glimpse into another time." Those are all things I like to do on my vacations. I've just narrowed down my chronicling to house museums.
Check out Ally's episode on Catalina Island that features the Inn on Mt Ada, a Wrigley Mansion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bentTSsxOWI&feature=plcp Then take a look at my blog entry on the Wrigley Mansion in Phoenix, AZ. (4/6/09)
I've sent her a link to my blog. Why not? It's a great source for future Ally Quest episodes. You'll be the first I'll shout out to if anything develops. Is there a video guest appearance in my future??
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Bidwell Mansion
Chico, CA
It's a bit of an unusual relationship. Jane and I became friends/acquaintances because our email addresses are almost identical. I was serving on a volunteer committee and in our back and forth emails one of the members dropped a letter from my address. Next thing we knew Jane from California was in the loop and regretfully declining attendance at the next meeting.
When Jane learned about my passion for house museums and this blog she recommended her local favorite, the Bidwell Mansion in Chico CA.
Though not planning a trip to the West Coast anytime soon, I was intrigued. But I was stopped in my tracks. Early search results focused on a listing of over 70 California state parks slated for closing in the summer of 2012 due to the dire California budget crisis. Bidwell Mansion was on the list!
Reading further the Mansion looked just like the kind of property I love to tour and write about. It's interesting to me at every turn... so many historical references in the related biographies, so much period furnishings and interior design elements, so many architectural details, and so much beauty in the surrounding geography!
The Bidwell Mansion Association is raising funds to keep the Mansion open for another year! Let's hope they're successful and that they're ingenious enough to keep Bidwell open year after year.
To learn more about what we're missing at the Bidwell Mansion go to Martha's Musing. And for more discussion about the California park closings as well as the Bidwell go to the blog State Park Closures Trip.
It's a bit of an unusual relationship. Jane and I became friends/acquaintances because our email addresses are almost identical. I was serving on a volunteer committee and in our back and forth emails one of the members dropped a letter from my address. Next thing we knew Jane from California was in the loop and regretfully declining attendance at the next meeting.
When Jane learned about my passion for house museums and this blog she recommended her local favorite, the Bidwell Mansion in Chico CA.
Though not planning a trip to the West Coast anytime soon, I was intrigued. But I was stopped in my tracks. Early search results focused on a listing of over 70 California state parks slated for closing in the summer of 2012 due to the dire California budget crisis. Bidwell Mansion was on the list!
Reading further the Mansion looked just like the kind of property I love to tour and write about. It's interesting to me at every turn... so many historical references in the related biographies, so much period furnishings and interior design elements, so many architectural details, and so much beauty in the surrounding geography!
The Bidwell Mansion Association is raising funds to keep the Mansion open for another year! Let's hope they're successful and that they're ingenious enough to keep Bidwell open year after year.
To learn more about what we're missing at the Bidwell Mansion go to Martha's Musing. And for more discussion about the California park closings as well as the Bidwell go to the blog State Park Closures Trip.
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