CHARLIE BROWN

The cartoonist, Charles Schultz, lived and worked in Santa Rosa for much of his adult life. Today the Santa Rosa Airport is named after him, there is also a fine museum dedicated to his memory, and, on the same grounds, an ice skating arena which was one of his gifts to the city.

Recently, in Schultz's honor, some 55 Charlie Brown statues were commissioned and have been placed at various locations around town. Dickie and I have visited 18 of them at this point and hope to see them all eventually. Here are a couple samples:

On an evening this past week several of us Schmidt's got together to celebrate Mary Szecsey's birthday at a restaurant on the Old Courthouse Square in downtown Santa Rosa. That's how we happened to take the picture below since this is one of several statues now located in or near the Old Courthouse Square:

For those who are interested and able to look around, there are maps of the locations available at the Visitors Center in Railroad Square and at the Doghouse in the Courthouse Square. Plans are to bring all 55 of the statues to the Courthouse Square during the last two weeks of September for public viewing.