HEALDSBURG, Calif. - Sometimes visitors to MacMurray Ranch, the 1,500-acre spread owned by movie and TV actor Fred MacMurray for a half-century, want to know: Where's the heliport? Where's the ...

What started as a quiet retirement plan in California wine country has grown into a large family-owned farming and hospitality business. When actor Fess Parker bought the 714-acre Foxen Canyon Ranch ...

While he wasn’t born here, Fess Parker got here as fast as he could, or as fast as his family could, moving to San Angelo three months after his Aug. 16, 1924 birth in Fort Worth. He attended Austin ...

Wine has a long history, longer than most people realize, here in America. The first wines in what’s now the United States were made by French Huguenot immigrants in Florida in the 1500s, using local ...

The 1950s and 1960s introduced Americans to television and riveted audiences with tales of the frontier. One of the most noted actors of the era was Texan Fess Parker. He became one of the most ...

There’s something uniquely special about a bottle of wine that carries a name — and a story — behind it. In Santa Barbara County, many of those stories trace back to the women who have shaped the ...

For those who can make it past Santa Barbara, a whole new world of wine, cowboys, and pastoral beauty unfolds. Two or three hours north of Los Angeles by car—depending on what time you make the ...

A Conversation with Fess Parker 1705 is another interview edited almost exactly like the previous where Maltin visits the man who played Davy Crockett at his winery in California Memories of how he ...

A Spirited Affair saw Fess Parker Winery, a Santa Barbara fixture, paired with The Gwen Chicago for a remarkable paint and sip event. Bites and sips pairings were designed by executive chef at The ...

••• Last Friday’s meeting of the county’s Central Board of Architectural Review included an expansion of the Fess Parker Wine Country Inn in Los Olivos that would add a new building the size of the ...

Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. Last week, Santa Barbara wine businesses joined the newly created Santa Barbara County Wine Business ...

Santa Barbara Councilman Oscar Gutierrez supports forming a Wine Business Improvement District and hopes the proceeds will benefit the workforce. Credit: Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo Santa Barbara ...