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Yuba Sutter's Community For Readers and Writers
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 ith the ability to read we gain knowledge of the world; with the ability to write we gain knowledge of the self. These two acts constitute a relationship, a conversation, and the groundwork of thinking so very fundamental to health in our world.
Welcome to the literary explosion of Northern California. Please join us in the mission: combining the mind opening power of books with the tools and network of a community writing center.
Amicus represents a new model for positive community change. The written word is perhaps universally recognized as a force, having the power to shape our perceptions, create our intentions, and reveal our common truths, assumptions, and goals. |
 ur goal is to promote and advance the literary genius of Marysville, Yuba City, and the surrounding area - to offer opportunities for writers, to educate, to enhance that force inherent in all of us - the creativity of language.
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Featured Book Of The Month
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California--Its Gold and Its Inhabitants |
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 Sir Henry Vere Huntley (1795-1864) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. California: its gold and its inhabitants (1856) contains his experiences in California in 1852 as the San Francisco-based representative of a British gold quartz-mining company. He describes business and social life in San Francisco as well as visits to Marysville and Sacramento and two months at Placerville supervising large-scale mechanized mining operations. Special attention is given to shipping news, crime and violence and political corruption and disasters such as the Marysville flood and Sacramento fire.
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Text taken from back cover of paperback edition:
"Mal Huntley is a partner, with his brother, in an insurance agency in Marysville, California. He lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, twenty miles north of that town. In May of 1981, he took his daughter Jen to the United Kingdom for a months vacation. While in England they made a trip to Boxwell Court, near Tetbury, in the Cotswolds. Boxwell Court was, and is to this day, the ancestral home of an unbroken line of Huntleys dating back to 1582. The then owner, John Huntley, Esq., told them that there had only been one exception; A period of forty years in the late 1800s when the lord of the manor, one Sir Henry Huntley, had been forced into bankruptcy by imprudent investments.
Sir Henry, the story went, had been quite an adventurer. A Captain in the British Navy and one time Governor of Prince Edward Island; he had spent most of his life in the new world; from Africa to the North American continent.
Three years after his visit to Boxwell, Mal was browsing in an antiquarian bookstore in Chicago, Illinois. His companion spotted a book entitled: California, Its Gold and Its Inhabitants by Sir Henry V. Huntley. The book, it turned out, was an account of Sir Henry's adventures in Northern California, in general, and Marysville, in particular; at the time of the California gold rush. Amazingly enough, the failed business adventure that caused the Huntley family to lose Boxwell Court fro forty years, was the Dicksburg Mine; located near Hansonville (now Rackerby) north of Marysville. The site is only ten miles from Mal Huntley's home.
This book is Sir Henry's journal of that historic time." |
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This Month's Book is 
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