Community Guide 2017
A Note Regarding Photographs for this Edition by Anne McClain, Photo Editor
Tom Valens has taken many great photos of the com- munity coming together to build playgrounds and to work at the school, as well as some of flooding streets when we get one of those years of deluge. Larry Brauer and Peter Oppenheimer contributed beautiful landcape and nature photos. Elaine Patterson Doss rounded up some wonderful historical photos of Nicasio. Art Rogers allowed us to pub- lish several of his famous group photos commemorating moments in Valley life. Chuck Ford gave us permission to use photos from his collection as well as a wonderful pic- ture he took of the Gratis Builders at Aneice Taylor’s home. (You can find that story inside!) Susan Gregg Conard gave us photos and drawings made by her father, Harold Gregg, of Forest Farm Summer Camp (now Serenity Knolls). Bob Baker contributed some fun photos of the Doggy Olympics from the 1980s, and Petra Martin Toriumi gave us some from her childhood in the 1950s. Where we found gaps in our photo record, San Geronimo School student Paloma Russ took the perfect photos to fill them. As well as photos, I was able to collect some historic documents such as the Holly Fair 50 th Anniversary booklet from 2000 and some pages from the Worth While Club from the 1940s and ’50s. On behalf of the Community Guide Committee, I want to express our deep gratitude to these many individuals for the generous contribution of these amazing photos and documents. It has been a wonderful and eye-opening expe- rience to get a look at all of these treasures, and I hope that you enjoy them, too!
It is a time-worn cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words, but I think it is a truth. We were given access to many wonderful photos illuminating times gone by and pictures documenting the here and now. Hank Floyd gave us access to photos taken by his late father, Harlan Floyd, who not only built quite a few houses in the Valley, but also documented some of the wild times and personalities of the Valley in the ’60s and ’70s with beautiful photo- graphs. He also allowed us to publish Harlan’s photo of Jerry Garcia playing ball at the Woodacre Ball Field—the first and only time it has been published anywhere. Images of earlier days were brought to us by Jim Staley, who allowed us to use photos and infomation that he col- lected and previously published in his book, Railroads in the San Geronimo Valley 1874–1933 , and his 2005 calendar highlighting historical scenes from the San Geronimo Valley. Newall Snyder, who collects antiques, paper items and ephemera, allowed us to scan the items from his personal collection related to the Valley and Nicasio. Amazingly, he found a photo of the Center’s mural signed by Maurice Del Mué, the artist himself, and inscribed to Bobby Clever, the boy who posed for it. Newall came across this treasure the day after coming to the Community Center and seeing the mural for the very first time. The postcard’s inscription appears in these pages. David Wilson entrusted some of the old photos that he and his family have collected to Jean Berensmeier and told her stories of the old days to accompany them as well as giving an interview to Amos Klausner.
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