Ocupation: Historian
Life: September 3, 1940 - January 14, 2017
Birthday: September 3
Death: January 14
In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.
source: Kevin Starr (1986). “Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era”, p.134, Oxford University Press
topic: Wine, Sunshine, Land, Bottles Of Wine