Sacramento Digital Stories

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    • Africa Emerging

      Mead B. Kibbey talks about sculpting the black granite fist found in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in Sacramento.

      • Release date
        Jul 9, 2011
      • Runtime
        02:53
    • Military Memorabilia

      M.D. Smith, retired after starting a businessin Rancho Cordova, CA and turned his abilities toward collecting military memorabilia from friends. After doing this for seven years he has a sizeable collection and wants to have a Military Museum in Rancho Cordova.

      • Release date
        May 18, 2011
      • Runtime
        05:35
    • Capital Decades - 20s - Fashions and Styles

      Sacramento Public Library presents Capital Decades, Fashions and Styles of the 1920's. SPL's Amanda Graham and Art Deco Society's Doreen Sinclaire bring you the fashions and styles of the 1920's. Watch as our models show off vintage clothing from the 20's.

      • Release date
        May 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:25:35
    • 90 Years of Memories of Sacramento Revised

      George "Rob" McDonell describes growing up in Sacramento County near present-day Rancho Cordova. Before enlisting in the Navy during WW II Rob describes going to dances, the theater, and an ice-cream parlor. he then talks about owning a turkey farm in Southeast Sacramento County after the war. In Memory of George Robinson McDonell, December 11, 1919 to December 18, 2010.

      • Release date
        Dec 31, 2010
      • Runtime
        06:08
    • 90 Years of Memories of Sacramento

      George "Rob" McDonell describes growing up in Sacramento County near present-day Rancho Cordova. Before enlisting in the Navy during World War II Rob describes going to dances, the theater, and an ice cream palor. He then talks about owning a turkey farm in Southeast Sacramento County after the war.

      • Release date
        Dec 22, 2010
      • Runtime
        05:58
    • O' Pioneer: A Conversation with Burnett R. Miller

      One of Sacramento's most dynamic personalities and talents, Burnett R. Miller gives an interview, providing thoughts on his pioneer heritage, political experiences, and philanthropic pursuits. ;

      • Release date
        Nov 2, 2010
      • Runtime
        44:58
    • My Father My Angel (revised)

      Bernard Marks, a genealogy volunteer with the Sacramento Public Library, describes Germany invading Poland, living in the Lodz Ghetto, and surviving Kauferling IV, a sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp.

      • Release date
        Aug 25, 2010
      • Runtime
        06:46
    • My Father My Angel

      Bernard Marks, a genealogy volunteer with the Sacramento Public Library, describes Germany invading Poland, living in the Lodz Ghetto, and surviving Kauferling IV, a sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp.

      • Release date
        Jul 27, 2010
      • Runtime
        06:46
    • A Conversation With Barbara Jackson

      Texas transplant Barbara Jackson came to the Sacramento area with her husband, Turrentine, in the early 1950s.

      • Release date
        Feb 2, 2010
      • Runtime
        13:31
    • "Eternal Flame 2009"

      Eternal Flame is an annual event, a United States flag retirement ceremony, sponsored by Troop 107 of the Boy Scouts of America, Pioneer District, Golden Empire Counsil, in Sacramento, California. Hundreds of Scouts, family and friends attend this weekend ceremony and activities. Before a flag is retired, if possible, it is raised and lowered, folded and marched to a fire pit. Once placed in the fire pit those in attendance salute the flag until the colors are no longer recognizable. At this e...

      • Release date
        Dec 9, 2009
      • Runtime
        05:21