Tag: santa rosa

  • The Peanuts statues of Santa Rosa

    All over Santa Rosa’s downtown I stumbled across statues in the likeness of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters (Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, etc.) They’re all about the same height, but made from different materials and from different artists. These were all commissioned after Schulz’s death in 2000, apparently because he didn’t like the idea of statues…

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  • Cyclisk

    Easily the strangest thing I saw on this trip was the “Cyclisk,” an obelisk made of around 340 damaged bicycles. It was created by Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector as a public art project for Santa Rosa. Ironically the statue is next to a car dealer and a car wash, but Grieve says “The statement…

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  • Luther Burbank Home and Gardens

    I arrived in Santa Rosa this afternoon and made a beeline for the Luther Burbank Home and Gardens. It’s the site of the home and a test garden of the wildly prolific horticulturist Luther Burbank. I bought a ticket for the hourly tour. Although not a household name, Burbank invented a number of common foods…

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