SACRAMENTO, California – There’s no time like autumn to stroll through the City of Trees. From the river bank to the Capitol building, everywhere you go, you will come across magnificent trees, its leaves sprawling onto the sidewalks where on a week day state workers will traverse.
Beyond the tree-lined streets, art ferments nearby. Sactown is home to the foremost art museum on the West coast. The Crocker, with its new wing, merges the old and new with an ease that should not be overlooked. An education in impressionism, with hints of European influence, and cultivated in our terrain can be had in an afternoon.
The area is also home to the theme of pioneering spirit. The fort, connected in many ways to lore of Gold and 49ers, sits next to an Indigenous museum. Both capture ideas of the area, where change brought about devastation to the natural setting. Now, many of the economies continue to beat within this ever-existing backdrop.
For many Californians, Sacramento is the Capitol city, but when one visits, it exudes a permanence irrespective of popular opinion. The river rolls past, and the seasons continue to progress as they did before.
Sacramento Book Recommendations:
Run, River, by Joan Didion, 1963.
Examining the changes in Sacramento through the lenses of an old family.
Human Comedy, by William Saroyan, 1943.
A boy’s coming-of-age in the Central Valley.
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