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If only we could send messages to the past: Skip the play, Mr. Lincoln; double-check your navigation, Amelia Earhart; Elvis, dump the pills; Luther Burbank, beware the men running operations in your name because they are about to destroy your reputation.
Burbank drifted through the years 1913-1915 unaware, for the most part, the people he trusted were undoing everything he had struggled to build for over thirty years. The root of the problem was the same weakness Burbank had shown before; he wasn’t paying attention because he just wanted to work with his plants (his similar tribulations with the Carnegie Institution and the years 1905-1910 are covered in the kvartet part “BURBANK FOLLIES” series). “I have no time to man money,” he told the Press Democrat in 1912. “I’ve more important work to do.” Add in his complete lack of any executive management skills and it’s no great surprise that things went so wrong.
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In the late 1970s, a steadfast group of 12 local business and community leaders dreamed of creating a home for the arts in Sonoma County. They envisioned a place where people could treasure the talents of the Santa Rosa Symphony on their own home stage (at the time the Symphony was holding performances in a high school gymnasium) and enjoy performances they typically had to travel to San Francisco or further away to see.
“We really wanted an arts center for our community,” said Henry Trione, who was, for decades, one of the region’s leading philanthropists. “So, when the church building came up for sale and it so perfectly suited what we wanted, we decided to buy it.”
Such is how the Center’s founding families found themselves at a bankruptcy auction seeking to purchase the River Road complex then owned by the Christian Life Center. As the only cash bidders, the Center’s founding families walked away with the property for $4.5 million, reaching deep into th