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California History articles from March 2002
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California History archives from March 2002
The Ghirardelli story.(Ghirardelli Chocolate Company )
March 22, 2002... People love chocolate, but how many people know that the country's second oldest chocolate company is Ghirardelli? Founded in June 1852, it has been operating for more than one hundred and fifty years now; only Baker's Chocolate, founded in...
Who made Drake's plate of brass? Hint: it wasn't Francis Drake.
March 22, 2002... A brass plate engraved with Francis Drake's claim to vast reaches of North America became this state's greatest historical treasure when it was found and authenticated in the late 1930s. The plate would become California's greatest hoax when it...
Ramona, I love you.(novel by Helen Hunt Jackson )
March 22, 2002... Love for a landscape, what we might call topophilia, derives not so much from how a place looks, but rather from our interactions with the place, and the stories and songs we create to record our recollections and emotions associated with the...
Ramona country, then and now.(California places in novel by Helen Hunt Jackson)
March 22, 2002... TEMECULA
Ramona's Temecula
"'Is it a large town?' asked Ramona.
Alessandro sighed. 'Dear Senorita, it is not a town; it is only a little village not more than twenty houses in all, and some of those are built only of tule. There...
Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman
By Frances Esquibel Tywoniak and Mario T. Garcia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, 267 pp., $45 cloth, $17.95 paper)
This dual-voiced collaborative narrative is...
Fool's Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Fool's Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader
Edited by Dean Stewart and Jeannine Gendar (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2001, 188 pp. $18.95)
Identifying the key events and master trends of one's era presents all the difficulties of plotting...
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Free Trade & Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Free Trade
By Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002, 256 pp., $29.95 cloth)
Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the...
Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience & Generations: A Japanese American Community Portrait. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience
By Kristine Kim (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000, for the Japanese American National Museum, xiv, 141 pp., paper, $24.95)
Generations: A Japanese American Community Portrait Edited by Diane...
John Muir: A Naturalist in Southern California & Kindred and Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... John Muir: A Naturalist in Southern California
By Elizabeth Pomeroy (Pasadena: Many Moons Press, 2001, 148 pp., $15.95 cloth)
Kindred and Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr
Edited by Bonnie Johanna Gisel...
Spotlight.(Volcano, California)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Photographer Malcolm Lubliner captured the apparition of a once-thriving gold country town on a visit to Volcano in 1982.
The Amador County town was once a hive of gold rush activity. It had its own post office in 1851 and a cutoff on the...