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Since being appointed Vallejo's poet laureate, Herrmann has performed at the Mad Hatter Holiday Festival, [7] a Martin Luther King Day event, [8] a Black History Month event, [9] Fiestas Primavera in Benicia, [10] Art Walk, [11] Alibi Bookshop, [12] [13] [14] the Earth Daze Festival, [15] a climate change themed art exhibit at Vallejo Art Lofts ...
Vallejo is located on the southwestern edge of Solano County, California in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. Vallejo borders the city of Benicia to the east, American Canyon and the Napa county line to the north, the Carquinez Strait to the south and the San Pablo Bay to the west.
The Vallejo Estate is a historic house in Sonoma, California, one of the six sites that comprises the Sonoma State Historic Park. The estate was owned by General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo , a Californio military leader and landowner.
D. L. Lang was appointed Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California in September 2017 and served through December 2019. [28] [29] As poet laureate Lang edited the poetry anthology Verses, Voices & Visions of Vallejo [11] [30] and performed 141 times in 18 different cities. [31] Lang gave the invocation [32] at the 2019 Vallejo Women's March. [33]
She served as poet laureate of Vallejo, California from August 2015 to September 2017. [12] During her tenure, she performed at several local events and celebrations, including Art Walk, [13] Visions of the Wild, [13] Women's History Month, [14] Juneteenth, [15] Martin Luther King Jr. Day, [16] and a vigil after the Charlottesville car attack. [17]
Detailed information about his early life and role in the Mexican–American war, 1846–1848, can be found in his autobiography, John B. Frisbie Reminiscences. Frisbie's life is chronicled in Integral Outsiders, The American Colony in Mexico City 1876–1911, by William Schell Jr.
On July 13, 1852, Sloat recommended the island [3] across the Napa River from the settlement of Vallejo, as it was "free from ocean gales and from floods and freshets." The Navy Department acted favorably on Commodore Sloat's recommendations and Mare Island was purchased for use as a naval shipyard in July 1853 at a cost of $83,410.
Snyder was appointed Vallejo’s poet laureate in January 2020 and served until December 31, 2023. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In 2021 Snyder appeared on the Rooted in Poetry podcast, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] performed at a virtual benefit for the Solano County Library Foundation, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] performed with his predecessors at Alibi Bookshop, [ 16 ] [ 9 ...