I’m not usually pushy. Really, I’m not. But when my friend Shirley told me she was coming to visit my wife and me from Vancouver Island, Canada, I knew where I wanted to take her: Saint Helena Island.
ST. HELENA — St. Helena’s Chinese population appeared in the 1870s and dug many of the wine caves that enabled the growth of the Napa Valley wine industry. After a few decades they disappeared almost ...
June 12, 1883 marked an important epoch in the history of St. Helena, reported the St. Helena Star. “It was the birthday of a new enterprise, the date when gas was first introduced and it was made a ...