Alice Galleron
Rue Ziegler, cultural anthropologist and RDS member, conducted Alice Galleron's, interview on June 15th, 2005. The excerpts below cover the period from 1915 to the present day.
Virgile and Angel Galleron, the parents of Virgil Galleron to whom Alice was married July 1, 1944, arrived in Napa Valley in 1918. They bought the whole lane (Galleron), over the Napa River to the Silverado Trail, about 402 acres. They bought their sheep here, which they raised until they were killed off by dogs and other animals. They just couldn’t make a living here doing that. Just 3 years after they purchased the property, they started selling. Virgil’s dad arrived in 1919, the year Prohibition began to take its devastating toll. Virgil Galleron was the president for 30 years of the Napa Valley Cooperative Winery.