A Retired Farmer, Basking in the Vallejo Sunshine
August 12, 1933
Newspaper clipping
Publisher unknown

Private Collection
Harvard, IL

From the Julsen Collection

"Artist Burbank has caught a staunch old pioneer taking a deserved rest and has given us a splendid portrait with his educated pencil. This boat, "The Shooting Star," was built in Bath, Maine, 1853, when all the world was California mad. She was taken apart and shipped around the Horn on another vessel, and was re-assembled at Vallejo and went into an active life hauling potatoes, melons and many other agricultural crops up and down the Sacramento River. Once she saw stirring times in a labor war hauling Chinamen into San Francisco. She was a fishing craft for a while. In 1920, having just about reached the three score and ten mark, F. Hodges bought her and turned her into a house boat. Now she dabbles her feet in the rising tide, and drowses, come to rest at last near where she first landed in California - at Vallejo."