Highway 1 between Fort Bragg and Westport has been 'slipping' for many years. Caltrans and a contractor that promises to 'deliver on the impossible' are waging a ferocious battle against time and Nature to save the crucial highway.
Marilyn Wagner, daughter of Betty and Ernie Schoefer, who created the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, recounts the dramatic history of the coast's horticultural Utopia. She was there from the very beginning!
Of the Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Finnish immigrants who settled in Fort Bragg at the turn of the twentieth century, Finns made up the largest ethnic group. For the town's Alleyway Mural Project, artist Lauren Sinnott created a vibrant pictorial history that illustrates the physical and philosophical contributions the proud, resourceful Finns made to the character of the town.
