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An Intimate History of Bodega Country
and the McCaughey Family
Ruth McCaughey Burke

CD-ROM version  $ 30.00

Drawn from Burke’s considerable collection, including the writings of her father, Howard McCaughey (1878–1960), Bodega native Ruth Burke’s book covers pioneer families, and includes transcriptions of family correspondence, pioneer diaries, public records, and newspaper articles, along with Burke’s own memories and perceptions. The many letters exchanged between McCaughey and his brother James, a San Francisco attorney and a partner in McCaughey Brothers, Incorporated, are particularly interesting, revealing details, thoughts, and feelings about politics and local issues, and giving a peek into the business philosophies and practices of the past. Well-indexed, with nineteen pages of photographs from the author’s collection, the CD-ROM includes everything that is published in the hard copy book.

Days of a Wine Dark Sea:
A Recollection of World War II Dillon Beach and the North Coast
Kenn Sherwood Roe
$8.50



This first person account of wartime Dillon Beach is full of the details that make local history so intriguing. The perspective of the military presence at the Beach—from enemy submarine sightings and dive bombers’ practice raids (watched from the front porch) to Sunday afternoon USO dances—seen through the eyes of a young Kenn Roe, is startling. The essay at the end of the booklet, "A Bouquet for Heinrich," acts as a thoughtful epilogue, telling of the Roe family’s experience with a group of young German POWs near the end of the War.

Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima
James Dilena, Kay T. Dilena, Yasuo Takeyama, Janet F. Takeyama
foreword by Mike Mansfield
$8.50


A unique and very personal account of the two consequential events which framed World War II, seen from the four perspectives of the authors. James Dilena (Tomales High School, class of 1938) was a naval enlisted man who survived the attack at Pearl Harbor. Yasuo Takeyama was an officer of the Imperial Fleet and Naval Air Force, and is a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima. The two became brothers-in-law. This is a fascinating and powerful story of two monumental world events, two families, and two cultures. (The little book itself blends the cultures: English and Japanese versions are bound together in one book.)
Kay Dilena: "Who could have guessed that the family of Takeyama, dating seventeen generations back to a samurai household, and the family of Dilena, immigrating two generations ago from Switzerland to California’s land of fertility, would be joined in the aftermath of the war?"

Tomales Township: A History
A. Bray Dickinson
edited with added material by Kathie Nuckols Lawson and Lois Randle Parks
$33.00


The story of the Bolsa de Tomales before the North Pacific Coast Railroad, written by Tomales historian Ables Bray Dickinson, who left its manuscript in the hands of Hal and Mary Martin. The Martins, in turn, gave the Dickinson collection to the History Center, and the manuscript for this book was edited and published by TRHC in1993. Now in its second printing, the book is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of the early township.
"Anyone who has delved into historical research is very much aware that sometimes the side tracks and spurs…are…as important and interesting as the main track. I am positive that Bray Dickinson in his writing Narrow Gauge to the Redwoods found it very difficult to ignore these sidetracks…It is well that he did not, for these are the building blocks that he used to tell the history of Tomales Township." (Harold Lapham, from his forward to Tomales Township: A History)