Everything on our site can be purchased in person as well. We do same day shipping as well as private shopping appointments.
Address
136 E De La Guerra
Business Hours
Wednesday - Saturday
12 pm - 5 pm
Thursdays
12 pm - 7 pm
The Museum Store offers a variety of thought provoking and beautiful items that highlight our city's rich heritage: hard-to-find books, historic images, jewelry made by local artists, educational books and vintage toys for children, museum and exhibition publications, as well as unique gifts.
A wind-sculpted wilderness? - or the harsh grey outlines of a nuclear power plant? That was the choice confronting Kathleen Goddard Jones when she first set foot on Central California's Nipomo Dunes, stretching 18 unexplained miles from Pismo Beach to Point Sal. She opted for an all-out campaign to save the dunes, defying powerful commercial interests that fought to squelch her dream every step of the way. Sometimes the danger lurked within her fellow Sierra Club members’ private ambitions. Kathleen was nearing sixty, not an average age for launching an underdog crusade. But she was not an average woman. Survivor of three husbands and countless tumultuous love affairs, she brought immense reserves of charm, diplomacy and modern public relations skills along with her raw courage to a struggle that would consume thirty years of her life. After the resounding success of Virginia Cornell’s first book, Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies, she wanted to write about another woman of accomplishment. Her search led her to the gutsy little environmentalist, Kathleen Goddard Jones. Virginia and Kathleen spent many happy hours tramping together across the Nipomo Dunes, where Kathleen was brutally frank about her triumphs, her despairs, her affairs
Everything on our site can be purchased in person as well. We do same day shipping as well as private shopping appointments.
Business Hours
Wednesday - Saturday
12 pm - 5 pm
Thursdays
12 pm - 7 pm