Come join us Saturday November 9th on South A Street in Santa Rosa for the next “Ready, Set, Sketch!” group outing!
We’ll meet at 10am in the area of The Spinster Sisters Cafe at 401 South A Street, Santa Rosa! (http://goo.gl/maps/u8gtk), then disperse to sketch around the area. We’ll meet back at 1pm to share our sketches.
All you need is something to draw on and something to draw with. The event is free.
Here’s a Google map link: http://goo.gl/maps/u8gtk
Hope to see you there!
Occidental is a small Northern California mountain town founded in 1876. The cafe I sketched there, Howard’s Station Cafe, is named after William “Dutch Bill” Howard, who supposedly was not really Dutch, nor was his name William Howard. According to the restaurant’s website, “He was in fact, a Danish sailor named Christopher Thornassen Folkmann, born in 1823. Folkmann was serving as an able bodied seaman on the U.S. Ship St. Mary, which dropped anchor in San Francisco Bay in 1849.”
Howard granted the North Pacific Coast Railroad right-of-way across his land to connect the nearby town of Cazadero to Sausalito on the San Francisco Bay. In return, he received a lifetime railway pass and the station was named after him.
The Howard Station Cafe serves delicious organic breakfasts and lunches. On weekends, there is always a wait to get a table so come early (before 9am)—or late (after 1pm).
Our Ready, Set, Sketch! group met at 10 am in front of Howard’s Cafe Saturday and sketched the area. At 1pm we shared our sketches and then had lunch at the Cafe. A good time was had by all!
This sketch has been published in the Press Democrat online edition and in the Dec 21, 2013 edition of the Towns section of the PD.
