Huell Howser was a TV personality best known for hosting, producing, and writing California's Gold, a California travelogue. He also voiced the Backson in Winnie the Pooh (2011). Howser donated his videotaped collection of California's Gold and those of his other series, to Chapman University in 2011. He also donated personal papers, a large collections of books, "found-object" art, and two homes. He was cremated and scattered about California.