MICHELE SHOVER - Vina-River Partners

Our speaker will be member Michele Shover. Her talk "Here at the Beginning”, will set out the earliest origins of two remarkable entities, the New Clairvaux Winery at Vina and River Partners. She will set out how each originated in decisions by a prominent Los Angeles businessman who bought the Stanford Ranch. Bernard Flynn, Sr. meant to shield his family after the appearance of a Japanese submarine off of the Pacific coast in WWII. Their large family enjoyed stays at the ranch and had no desire to let it go. Michele Shover, a retired professor of political science and local historian is a property manager. She is the author of Exploring Chico's Past, California Standoff: Farmers, Indians and Miners at War: 1850-1865, and Chico's Chapman: A.H. Chapman, 1860-1899. The latter is a history of Chico as seen through a biography of business leader Gus Chapman, who arrived in 1861 and was in the thick of every aspect of its development.