Retirement has become a full-time job for John and Gail Kautz, where afternoon naps and watching Days of our Lives aren’t in the program. Helping the family manage some 5,000 acres of grapes is.

The Bay Bridge offers many great views of San Francisco and its beautiful bay. As you leave Treasure Island driving towards San Francisco looking to the right gives you striking views of the city’s …

At the request of a Mercy Hospital representative, Susan Maxwell Skinner accepted the challenge to produce dozens of huge photographs to decorate the new Mercy San Juan Medical Center tower in Carmichael.

The real gold in California is embedded in its history and the stories of people who faced the unknown to settle its coast, valleys, desert and foothills. In the Public Television series, California’s Gold, host Huell Howser puts a human face on the past as he uncovers the state’s legacy. With just a cameraman and a microphone, Howser travels the length and width of California, finding color and contrast among the population.

Shouting out the Secrets of Staying Young in Body and Soul! Clint Robinson He is apparently ageless and might be taken for a man 20 years younger, but a Sacramento area fitness icon gives all

The Sacramento region has long been recognized as a hotbed for producing major league baseball players. But, what goes unrecognized is the success of those who have become major league managers. Sacramento’s “Magnificent Seven” – [...]

Iris Taggart
Iris Taggart’s love affair with the B-17 Flying Fortress began twenty-one years ago when she heard the exciting news about a B-17 flying into McClellan Air Force Base offering tours and booking flights. She [...]

After church every Sunday, Duncan Miller rolls up the heavy door on his hangar at the Nut Tree Airport in Vacaville. Across the thin strip of asphalt roadway, two World War II Lockheed Navy PV2 bomber planes are parked on the grass, the nose art fading with age.

When Horace Greenly, editor of the New York Tribune, urged young men to go west in the 1840s, newspaper men followed settlers and gold seekers to the new frontier. They set up offices in mining [...]

If Only For the Moment
By Frank LaRosa
My mother owned Christmas.
Well, not in a literal sense, of course. But she sure embraced it like it was her own personal holiday!
The day after Thanksgiving pretty much served [...]

We are diverting from the usual cover story this month because I happened to ask Iris Taggert if she would jot down a few words about her husband, Tag, and the B-17’s.  I didn’t expect [...]

Sold for scrap, Liberty Belle rose from the discard heap like a Phoenix and continues to fly across America. The revival of the B-17 bomber aircraft and the establishment of The Liberty Belle Foundation is [...]

There were a lot of heroes during World War II and the Korean War. We have inspiring accounts of the soldiers, mostly men, who fought for our freedom. The women of war also left home [...]

World War 2 in Europe was rapidly coming to a final ending. Russian troops were in Berlin and Hitler had been in his bunker for days. American, British and Commonwealth troops were pressing [...]

United for their recent photo shoot, five veteran big band leaders revisited more than a combined 300 years of great gigs. An overall consensus on their brilliant careers was – as Bob Hope would say [...]