Cheryl Anne StappMar 273 min readMary PickfordIn a career that spanned several decades, her various nicknames included “Goldielocks,” “The Girl with the Curls,” and most of all,...
Cheryl Anne StappMar 202 min readArchitect Lilian J. RiceShe died young but her influence endures, not least because several of her works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
Cheryl Anne StappMar 133 min readDoña Francisca VallejoA dark-eyed beauty, Francisca Carrillo was born in San Diego when California was still a province of Imperial Spain, and raised in the...
Cheryl Anne StappMar 63 min readPoet Laureate Ina CoolbrithShe was a poet, an editor, a teacher, a librarian, and a prominent figure in San Francisco’s literary community in the 19th and early...