{"id":32398,"date":"2018-12-02T23:50:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T07:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=32398"},"modified":"2023-12-18T20:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T04:23:56","slug":"holiday-festivities-begin-on-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=32398","title":{"rendered":"Holiday festivities begin on coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are in the midst of holiday crafts fairs <\/strong>from the community center in Muir Beach to the community centers in Bolinas, the San Geronimo Valley, and Point Reyes Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And that is in addition to last Friday’s Christmas-tree lighting in Point Reyes Station and an exhibit that opened Sunday in Inverness’ Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History. It focuses on key women in early Inverness and on Point Reyes.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell<\/em><\/p>\n

Point Reyes Station celebrated its 20th annual Path of Lights<\/strong> Friday. Many stores stayed open late, and luminarios lined the sidewalk in front of them. West Marin Senior Services sponsored the lighting of the town Christmas tree beside the bank.<\/p>\n

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Also in Point Reyes Station, the Dance Palace Community Center held its 48th annual artisan craft and holiday market all weekend. Terry Aleshire (center) confers with his elves.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Working the table at the Dance Palace fair’s raffle were (from left): Allie Klein, Amelia Aufuldish, Bella Schlitz, Zoe Rocco-Zilber, and Melissa Claire.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cannabis-based remedies for various ailments were on sale.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell<\/em><\/p>\n

San Geronimo Valley’s community center<\/strong> held its 49th annual holiday crafts fair on the portico and inside the building, 89 years since it first opened as a public school.<\/p>\n

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Amy Valens, left, talks with local vendors Rebecca Maloney (center) and Denise Jackson. (Photo by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell)\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Richard “Santa” Sloan determines who’s been naughty or nice. (Photo by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Suzanne Sadowsky sits behind the Hanukah menorah. The holiday commemorates the oil that miraculously lasted eight days, lighting the Temple recovered by the Maccabees in 165 B.C. The holiday begins tonight. (Photo by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sarah Riddell Shafter (1823-1900) married Oscar Lovell Shafter in 1841 and bore him 11 children.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Those Shafter Women’<\/strong> is the name of the exhibit that just opened in the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History. “It focuses on the wives and daughters of the original six children born to Mary Lovell Shafter and William Rufus Shafter,” the museum newsletter notes. The eldest was named Wealthy Loretta Shafter Edminister…” Yes, her first name really was “Wealthy.”<\/p>\n

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Emma Shafter Howard<\/strong> married Charles Webb Howard in 1861. In 1890, they separated, and he agreed to support her for life and to leave half of his extensive West Marin holdings to her. However, he left her only Bear Valley Ranch, as Emma discovered when he died in 1908. Emma, who was known as “a strong woman,” sued to get her half of the property and was successful. This, however, caused bad feelings with some of the other heirs, her children and younger sisters.<\/p>\n

Emma took part in numerous social causes. She was a lifetime member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She founded the Women’s Agricultural and Horticultural Union of California.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The exhibit is in large part a genealogical presentation with history told as it relates to members of the Shafter family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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