All posts tagged "history"
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3.6KNewsA UCSC Professor’s Role in the Iran Hostage Crisis
Paul Johnston tells the BBC about his role in a 1980 peace delegation
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4.6KA&EHistorian Douglas Brinkley Talks ’60s Counterculture, Space Race
Events at Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Rio will span politics, music and more
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12.7K6A&EFear and Loathing in Santa Cruz
How UCSC hit the counter-culture jackpot with a new Hunter S. Thompson archive
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7.2K4Cover StoriesThe True Story of Mary Porter Sesnon and Pino Alto
While Mary Porter Sesnon’s name is well-known throughout the region, very little until now has been known about her life.
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10.1K1Cover StoriesKZSC Marks 50 Years on Santa Cruz Airwaves
The UCSC-based station has evolved over half a century, while staying true to its founders’ community-radio ideals
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5.1KA&E‘The Gail Project’ Opens at Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery
International history project explores the founding years of U.S. military in Okinawa
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4.4KFood & DrinkSanta Cruz Heritage Food Project Releases Book
‘Harvesting Our Heritage: Bite-Sized Stories from Santa Cruz County History’ has arrived after four years of research
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24.0K7Cover StoriesThe Story of Neil Young’s Short-lived Santa Cruz Band the Ducks
In the summer of 1977 Neil Young moved to town to make legendary music
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9.0K1Cover StoriesThe Truth Behind the Most Iconic Beatles Cover
As ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ turns 50, artist Jann Haworth reveals how it really got made
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9.0K6Cover StoriesSanta Cruz’s Historical African-American Baseball Team
Nearly erased from local history, the Santa Cruz Colored Giants challenged baseball’s racist rules in the Jim Crow era
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9.5K1NewsA Brief History of the Cooper House
The Cooper House is the spiritual and geographical predecessor of Abbott Square
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4.1K1NewsSurfers Plan to Honor Hawaiian Princes With New Plaque
The story behind a possible new park in the works at San Lorenzo Point
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4.6KFood & DrinkSanta Cruz Heritage Food Project Tracks Local Culinary Traditions
It was almost a hundred years after her family came to Santa Cruz that Live Oak native Sierra Ryan first held her...
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16.4K2Cover StoriesWhy is the Grave of Antoinette Swan Unmarked?
The historic Santa Cruz legacy and mana of Hawaiian-born Antoinette Swan
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12.8KCover StoriesTradition of Midwifery in Santa Cruz Continues with New Birth Center
Santa Cruz women fought for midwifery rights beginning in the 1970s, paving the way for today’s progress
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5.5KCover StoriesJack O’Neill, the Balloonist?
The little-known history of a local surf legend’s aerial experiments
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8.7KCover StoriesHail the Great Morgani
The Costumed Accordionist King of Pacific Avenue celebrates his 20th year of street performance
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5.8KCover StoriesA New Book Looks Back on 50 Years with Bookshop Santa Cruz
An interview with Wallace Baine on his new book and the importance of indie bookstores
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12.2K1Cover StoriesSanta Cruz’s Rich History of Ghosts
Ghost hunters, a book, and even a tour explore paranormal activity of Santa Cruz
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11.4K1Cover StoriesRemembering Santa Cruz’s Summer of Love
Three new books document the hippie movement’s brief, shining moment of glory in Santa Cruz and beyond
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8.4K2Cover StoriesCelebrating Santa Cruz’s 150th Anniversary
A look back at our city’s rough-and-tumble beginnings
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4.0KA&EPreview: Thad Carhart at Bookshop Santa Cruz
New memoir ‘Finding Fontainebleau’ recalls childhood in France
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8.5KCover StoriesThe Story of Juneteenth
Santa Cruz has been celebrating African American culture on the ‘Black Fourth’ for 25 years
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1.9KNewsCinco de Mayo Event Asks What We Can Learn from Other Cultures
News briefs for the week of May 4, 2016.
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3.3KColumnsPulp Friction
Our relationship with bananas is complicated, but they still have appeal
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1.6KA&EFamily Folk
How Regina Carter’s forgotten family history shaped her musical memory and her sound
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3.7KColumnsFood Porn
Aphrodisiacs and the food-sex connection
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Film
Scenes from a Moviehouse: A Brief History of the Nickelodeon
A brief history of how the Nickelodeon transformed Santa Cruz’s movie culture
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A&E
Pressing Rewind
Two galleries offer fresh looks at local history
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Cover Stories
Testing Ground: Remembering the First ‘Acid Test’
Fifty years ago Santa Cruz hosted a landmark moment in counterculture history
