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This is the sixth panel of the Blowers display. This panel discusses the Blowers family members education and involvement in community efforts to improve Woodland. It also outlines the transfer of the family's property to the 40th Agricultural…

This supplemental panel provides recipes by Annie, Carrie, and Mary Blowers from Our Mite for the Kitchen a cookbook prepared by the ladies of the Episcopal Mite Society, of Woodland in 1887.

This is a supplemental panel that discusses the roles of the agricultural workers on R. B. Blowers' farm. There is also discussion of the Chinese immigrants that were employed.

This supplemental panel discusses the work of Carrie and Annie Blowers as artists, including drawing, painting and sculpting. It also includes information about how the family farm served as inspiration for some of their work.

This supplemental panel provides information about the Blowers home and its contents gleaned from the probate files of R. B. and Annie Blowers.

Carrie Blowers (1863-1930)
Citrus on Branches
Charcoal on paper
Yolo County Historical Collection
Gift of Ruth Jarrett
YO1-813-02-16

Annie Blowers (1834-1939)
Citrus on Branch, No. 6
Charcoal on paper
Yolo County Historical Collection
Gift of Ruth Jarrett
YO1-813-01-08

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Panel #1 of "A Run Around the Block Display" providing biographical information about Veta Hurts Griggs author of A Run Around the Block (1967) a memoir about growing up in Woodland at the turn of the twentieth century.

Panel #2 of "A Run Around the Block Display" providing excerpts from the memoir by Veta Hurst Griggs about growing up in Woodland at the turn of the twentieth century.