Scott Fletcher, historian and educator, is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and holds advanced degrees from San Francisco and San Jose State universities. He has written over 130 “History Watch” columns for the Marin History Museum that have appeared in the Marin Independent Journal newspaper. He is a volunteer with the museum working both as a columnist and a cataloguer of the Louise Arner Boyd collection. Mr. Fletcher is a native Californian with a great interest in the history of Marin, where he has made his home since 1985 working both as a history teacher and Library Director in Marin County Schools.
The history of Marin County is intimately connected with the birth and early growth of the state of California. Marin is home to one of the last Spanish missions and...