“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!” — Albert Einstein Bearing gifts A couple of weeks ago we had a party at my daughter’s house in Fair Oaks honoring the family’s May birthdays, which is most of the family. My son Steve’s birthday is May 22 while his son James was born [...]
It was 1842 and James Skinner, his wife Jessie and his oldest son, James Jr., stepped off a boat into the United States. Thirty years old at the time, Skinner had been born in the Scottish town of Kettle in the county of Fife. His education had been interrupted when he was 11, so that [...]
Culinary adventurers are invited to embark on a fun food journey as the El Dorado County Visitor’s Authority presents a progressive dinner on Sunday, Jan. 30. For that evening the El Dorado County Visitor’s Authority brings together the area’s finest chefs offering an extraordinary El Dorado County epicurean experience via a countywide progressive dinner. Diners [...]
