A piece of California history that dates to 1776 is going up for auction in New York City later this month. A two-page letter by Father Junipero Serra, regarded as the father of the California mission ...
Janet Dowling Sands will deliver a lecture, “A New Look at California’s Mission History,” on Jan. 16, at Sonoma Mission Chapel in Sonoma. What: Historian Janet Dowling Sands’ lecture on California’s ...
Long before Napa made California wine famous, the roots of California wine were planted—literally—by Franciscan missionaries along the California Mission Trail. ByLayne Randolph, Contributor. Forbes ...
Janet Dowling Sands’ long-term fascination with California’s missions eventually inspired her to head out with her husband — an architect and a history buff — to visit and paint all of them. “That’s ...