Come with me to my canyon. Let us climb down, down. Parting the laurel and the wild bank rose, riotous in its beauty. Down to this still spot. This bed of a mountain stream in winter. This place of rejoicing birds in summer. And in spring, — this place for the dancing of our souls. — Margaret Erwin Schevill, 1922
Berkeley’s intellectual community discovered Inverness in the early 1920s. These families mostly lived north…