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well at last. Maybe you are here to visit us. We appreciate your giving us one of your days free from your duties as curator of the historic home of General Vallejo in Sonoma. I'm glad destiny to be a guest in your home so filled with beautiful

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things, expressing your personality and alters music. My husband does not seem to find time for his music since his retirement from the san Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Archer's time is given to his garden in our little Angela who will soon be four years old. Archer is giving

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Angela her first lessons on the violin. You know, he was a child musical prodigy. One of his teachers was fritz Kreisler Arthur. Would you play something for us? That would be wonderful. How about it matey? Yes, please. Mhm. Mhm.

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Thank you Arthur. That beautiful music. The Hungarian dance recalls to me the story of the Hungarian nobleman, Colonel Augustin Horrocks, Afi, who came to California and 18 49 with his family. In the middle 18 fifties the colonel visited General Vallejo's at his home in the valley

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of Sonoma. The general took his guests on a tour of his vineyards with the result that Colonel ferocity bought several 1000 acres in the valley and planted them in wine grapes. He called his vineyard buena vista Nearby. He built a beautiful white campaign type villa with

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formal gardens. It was there, The Colonel and his lovely wife, Countess. Eleanora gave the vintage balls. Did you not tell me that two of General Valley whose daughters married two of Colonel ferocity Sons? Yes, it was a double wedding in june 18 63 natalia married Atala

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and Jovita married Arpad Atala and Natalie always lived in Sonoma. But our pad and his wife moved to san Francisco where he developed the world famous Eclipse Champagne. Our pets sister ferocity hancock often visited him and it was in his home that her twin boys George

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Allen and Harry were born on July 26, 1875. Harry died young. But Allen is living today. His golden years. A successful oil operator, former banker, real estate developer, a navigator, aviator, walter witcher, scientist, philosopher, philanthropist, musician and a true friend with a lovely wife, Marian. Hancock

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did you say musician. Lady? Yes. Captain Hancock is accomplished one. He plays the cello years ago his devoted mother bought him a rare one made by galliano. He has been a member of a symphony orchestra. Captain Hancock played with the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra presented me

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recently with a record in which he played with the Hancock trio. I brought it with me. Would you like to hear it? We'd love to matey let me put it on another musical number. California is a song written and composed by Francisco value

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a ho! It is sung by Harold Mcbride who is accompanied by ruth mcbride and thy glistening sands roll and bye. Is which lying and and corn old and I I sorry, luscious fruit. My gosh, old

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and it's years in bye. Okay. 24