Please join us for a book talk and signing with Cella Anne, author of "404 Years: An Autobiography."
Cella Anne, hailing from long-time Mare Island, Vallejo, and Napa/Sonoma County residents LaVier and Blanch Johansen and their daughter Yvonne (a 1947 graduate of Vallejo High School), is a professor, educator, and researcher at The University of the Fraser Valley, where she also worked to advance Indigenization in post-secondary education and was awarded Professor Emeritus in 2024.
While she has previously published academic articles and book chapters, 404 Years, the story of her family's 404 years in America, is her first book.
As “eminent domain” led American expansion, Cella Anne parallels her own history of movement with a U.S. Air Force father, awareness of social injustice, the distraction of an indulgent lifestyle in San Francisco, and her return to graduate school and a career as a university professor.
If you are someone interested in genealogy, in history, in issues of oppression and displacement of Indigenous peoples, or even in changes of religious belief - you will find something of interest in this book.
