A little over a year ago I featured a one-hour episode of California’s Gold in which Huell visited the beautiful Tejon Ranch in the Tehachapi Mountains. In this episode of California’s Gold, originally aired February 2010, we learn about the house built by ranch manager J.J. Lopez and follow its transformation from a sleepy little cottage to a museum showpiece. […]
This episode of California’s Golden Parks, originally aired in January 2005, sees Huell visiting Pio Pico State Historic Park in Whittier. The house was built in 1850, after Pio Pico’s time as governor of Mexican California had come to an end and around the time California became the 31st state. At its largest, Pio Pico’s ranch was 8,894 acres; nowadays […]
Although this one-hour episode of Visiting originally aired in August 2006, I do feel like it’s fitting, as we say hello to a brand new year, to take a long look at the the stars that surround us, to consider our place in the universe, and to ponder where we have been and where we are going. Another more personal […]
Today I’m sharing more pictures from my visit to the Haas-Lillienthal house in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood. I know I’m not the only one fascinated by the beautiful details of Victorian houses. Our tour guide took a few minutes to explain gingerbread trim and shingles on the building’s exterior, and later ushered us inside to admire the woodwork, stained […]
I sometimes wonder why Huell is often so worried about “giving away” the point of the show when the title itself is a huge clue! But either way, Huell has a lot of fun in this musical episode of Visiting which originally aired back in October 2000. And while the blurb below mentions Schroeder from Charles Schulz’ Peanuts cartoon, I […]
Concrete boats was not an entirely new concept to me, but until watching this episode of Visiting, originally aired March 2002, I never realized their construction was such a high-tech and complicated endeavor. This ASCE competition for engineering students started in 1988 and is still going on in 2024. The winners of this year’s finals competition were the University of […]
It seems such a shame that progress so often tends to wipe away remnants of the past with its frequently rich culture and diverse ethnic heritage. That was the case in downtown Stockton, where construction of the Ort J. Lofthus Crosstown Freeway impacted not only the Filipino community but also those of the Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic, and other minority groups. […]
Although Huell’s focus was mainly on the places and people of California, there were a few instances when he ventured further afield. This one-hour episode of Visiting, originally aired in April 1997, is a perfect example — and with Thanksgiving in the U.S. this week, as well as wintery weather arriving in much of the Northern Hemisphere, I decided it […]
How is it possible that it’s been nearly three years since I last hiked at Doton’s Point, on Folsom Lake’s north fork? I can’t believe so much time could have passed already — but it was high time for me to get back out there. Or at least I thought so, until I arrived at Granite Bay and found Park […]