This issue spotlights articles written by Marin Independent Journal reporter and staff historian Florence Donnelly, whose in-depth feature articles on Marin County history appeared in the IJ's Saturday Marin Magazine issues. We selected seven of her articles on interesting people and events from our local history:
- A Barroom Brawl on the Streets of Point Reyes Station
- Two Cities That Didn’t Exist
- The Story of Rancho Olompali
- From Black Point to Tiburon: the Story of Peter Donahue
- The Don and his San Jose Rancho
- San Anselmo – Marin County’s Hub City
- A Child’s Christmas in Early-day Marin
From the Archives of MHM (2023)
Contents: Our first president, The San Rafael jungles, The Sugar Line, A retrospective on Marin's Courthouses, Charles A. Ellis - the forgotten engineer, The coming of the automobile in Marin, Public hanging in 1893, The Civilian Conservation Corps, Gladys Kathleen Perkins early radio operator, Why Christmas Tree Hill?, The healing hills of Fairfax
Marin Loves To Have Fun! (2022)
Contents: Let's Play Ball 1913 style, May Madness, Swimming in the San Rafael Canal, Opening Day on the Bay, San Rafael Municipal Baths, July 4th 1899 - Goddess of Liberty, The San Rafael Wheelman, Camp Taylor, Marin Golf and Country Club, The Marin Grape Festival, Marinites love to hike
All Things Water! (Fall 2021)
Contents: Marin Water Company, Timeline, Alpine Dam, The CCC, Jack Gibson: The Man Who Wrote the Book on the MMWD, Where Flavored Fizz Began, MMWD and the Military, North Marin Water District, The Sugar Line, The Great Two-Year Drought
Celebrating Marin's Hotels and Resorts (Winter/Spring 2021)
Contents: Ancha Vista, Liberty Ranch, Tocaloma Hotel, Bon Air Hotel, Blithedale Hotel, Pastori's, Hotel Rafael (cover), Nicasio Hotel, The Inns of Mt. Tamalpais, Marshall Hotel, and Black Point Inn.
Women Making a Difference (Summer 2020)
Contents: Melba Pattillo Beals, Rose Shapira, Elizabeth Terwilliger, Ethel Tompkins, Jean Starkweather, Mimi Farina, Vera Schultz, Alice Yarish, Gladys Kathleen Parkin, Cornelia Ripley Sherman, Ellen Straus, Louise Arner Boyd, Dr. Millicent Cosgrave, and Dr. Agnes Walker.
Marin's Athletes (Winter 2020)
Contents: Eleanor Garatti, Matt Hazeltine, Ann Curtis, Sam Chapman, A Short History of Baseball, Jonny Moseley, Juli McKinstry, Steve Lavin, and Joe Breeze.
Marin On Fire! (Summer 2019)
Contents: The Great Fire of 1891, Marin’s Fire Equipment, American Distillery Fire, San Rafael Firemen and Fires, Corte Madera’s First Firehouse, Tiburon's Fires of 1921, A “Rendezvous for San Francisco Club Men” Burned, and Charles Russell Reilley, Jr.
Marin's Parks (Winter 2018)
Contents: Angel Island, Tomalas Bay, Ring Mountain, China Camp, McNear's Beach, The Welches, plus two additional articles - "Steps, Lanes & Paths" and "San Anselmo Parks."
Let's Go to the Movies (Summer 2018)
Contents: California Motion Picture Corporation, San Rafael's 4th Street theaters, Leon Forrest Douglass, when Marin starred in major motion pictures, the San Rafael Orpheus Theater, Eve Arden, Marin's original theaters and an article titled, "Inky Makes the FInal Cut."
Marin Watering Holes (Winter 2017)
Contents: 2AM Club, Smitty's Nave's, Silver Peso, De Borbas, Pier 15, and two additional articles - "Can I Buy You a Drink" and "From Ferries to Fine Dining."