General Joseph Hooker House

This is Myra posing in front of Gen. Joe Hooker's house in Sonoma. I told her to pose like that because I was under the apparently false impression that the term, hooker, comes from the camp followers who followed Gen. Hooker's brigade around during the Civil War. But today, I looked it up, and it turns out that the term appeared in print in 1845, long before Hooker became a public figure.