Charlie Brown shows
On Wednesday, September 7, 1887, a horse named Charlie Brown, owned by one H.P. Brown, came in third place at a race at the annual fair for California’s Seventeenth Agricultural District, consisting of Placer and Nevada County. This would have been more impressive had there been more than three horses …
Charlie Brown in black and white
Found another Charlie Brown of history. In 1875, Charlie Brown and his brother Derry, as well as some other individuals, were accused of rounding up fellow African Americans in order to kill the white men of Mississippi. This was at a time when race issues were playing out in some …
Charlie Brown has been in town for a long time
Back in 1884, there was a Native American (of the Calpella band) farmer who knew English better than the fellow members of his band, so he ended up doing a lot of the translation for them. He’d been born in Santa Rosa, California, in the town where the Schulz Museum and his …
Not that Snoopy
I think we can assume that this feline star of the book Snoopy’s Holiday Adventure (self-published last month) is not, in fact, the beagle we’ve all come to know and love. (The currently listed price is $21.62, which, for 24 pages, is a bit steep even for my I-like-to-have-Not-That-Snoopy-books buying …
Quick little notes
Now shipping are: volume 2 of the paperback edition of The Complete Peanuts, the boxed set of the first two volumes in that series, and the fourth trade paperback collection of the Kaboom! Peanuts comics. (I won’t be reviewing that last, as it’s got some of my work in it. But …
Not a book by Charlie Brown
As I showed the other day, I’m always interested in books about and even by folks named Charlie Brown. But I’ve found one that’s not by Charlie Brown, it’s by his daughter. That’s how she identifies herself on the book; the author name is Charlie Brown’s Daughter. The book has the …
Relatively Charlie Brown
As a Peanuts book blogger, I’ve always enjoyed the category of things that look like Peanuts books but aren’t. I found two of them tonight… interestingly similar. Who Are You Charlie Brown? a Search for Family is Wendy Brown’s search for information on her grandfather, one Charles Brown. That’s available …