The Museums of Los Gatos presents Hot Toddys and Cautionary Tales

This event will feature the first public reading of Wood's personal Christmas letters to family and friends. Reproductions of the letters will be available for sale. In 1924, writer and lawyer C.E.S. Wood and poet and suffragette Sara Bard Field built an estate in the hills above Los Gatos. Dubbed "The Cats" after the 8-­foot cat sculptures that graced the front entrance, their home also served as a creative retreat for Wood and Field until the mid-­1950s. The Cats Estate became a gathering place for some of America's most significant artists and writers, including Robinson Jeffers, Ansel Adams, John Steinbeck, Ralph Stackpole, and Lincoln Steffens.



The Museums of Los Gatos presents "American Bohemia: The Cats Estate in Los Gatos," on exhibit October 19, 2013 through April 20, 2014. This exciting exhibition explores the storied lives of C.E.S Wood and Sara Bard Field, acclaimed literary figures and intellectuals and builders of the Cats Estate, a Los Gatos landmark.