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Promoting the Bourne Identity: One Artist’s Path(1)
Many artists dream of being nationally known and collected, but collage artist and painter D’Ann Bourne is on her way to accomplishing that. D’Ann is a member of the Shasta County Arts Council and North Valley Art League in Redding and the Highland Gallery in Weaverville. She is a regular exhibitor at Redding’s Studio E…
Satisfy Your Inner Child at the CA State Fair
Approaching age 40 has made me increasingly nostalgic, so it was normal to have a few early-eighties flashbacks when I passed through the golden bears into the California State Fair last weekend in Sacramento.
Some of my best times were spent with my family at the fair, on the giant slide, the long-gone log ride and ski lift-style people move…
Vintner’s Cellar Brings Us Bacchus by Bus
Alan and Jana Leard, an effervescent couple with a passion for wine, wine making and wine traditions, relocated from Southern CA with plans to bring the Vintner’s Cellar Custom Winery franchise to the north state.
They did, and in early 2006, they jumped at the chance to rehabilitate the former Redding Book Store location on Califor…
To Haiti and Back: Au Revoir, Haiti
The “North State for Haiti” team should have known we were out of our element the minute we turned the corner into the waiting area at Miami International Airport to board our flight to Port-au-Prince. The boarding lounge had transformed into part hair salon, part disco, part card room and part coffee shop. Before we even left U…