Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial

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Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial

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Catherine Sherman

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Photograph - Photography

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"Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial, Napa County, California" by Catherine Sherman.

The writer Robert Louis Stevenson was from Scotland, but he traveled widely and spent some time in California. He honeymooned in a cabin with bride Fanny, sleeping on hay, on Mt. Saint Helena in Napa County in the summer of 1880. Stevenson wrote "Treasure Island" and "Kidnapped."

In 2012, I hiked to the site of the Stevenson honeymoon cabin, which is now gone but is marked with a granite book monument in a California state park named after Stevenson. My husband decided to read in the car, so here I was hiking alone, (not a good idea), but it was a lovely late afternoon in a beautiful forest. I knew it was going to be a steep mile up the mountain, so I shouldn’t have worn flip flops, even though they were sport flip flops. I also worried about spotting mountain lions, or worse still, mountain lions spotting me first. And on top of that, we didn’t leave any time during our visit to Napa (wedding activities took most rest of our time) to visit wineries, but I was determined to see this memorial — all for you, dear readers. (From my blog
https://catherinesherman.wordpress.com/tag/robert-louis-stevenson-state-park/)

The trail to the Stevenson Memorial is two miles round trip from the parking lot of the Robert L. Stevenson Memorial State Park. The trail to the summit of Mt. Saint Helena is 10 miles round trip with 1,300-foot elevation gain. The first part of the hike is a series of steep switchbacks. I only made it to the memorial.

The Granite Book Memorial Says:

On the left side:

THIS TABLET PLACED BY
THE CLUB WOMEN OF NAPA
COUNTY MARKS THE SITE
OF THE CABIN OCCUPIED IN
1880 BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
AND BRIDE WHILE HE WROTE
THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS

On the right side:

DOOMED TO KNOW NOT WINTER
ONLY SPRING, A BEING TROD
THE FLOWERY APRIL
BLITHELY FOR AWHILE
TOOK HIS FILL OF MUSIC,
JOY OF THOUGHT AND SEEING,
CAME AND STAYED AND WENT
NOR EVER CEASED TO SMILE.

R.S.L.

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