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Browsing Local History Articles by "Geoffrey Dunn"
Climbing Golden Mountain, by
Geoffrey Dunn
It is the summer of 1885 and three young children are peering into a barbershop on Front Street a few ... [Read more]
Climbing Golden Mountain - 2, by
Geoffrey Dunn
Aside from performing tasks as day laborers, many Chinese men worked in the laundry business. In 1880 there were already ... [Read more]
Hanging on the Water Street Bridge: A Santa Cruz Lynching, by
Geoffrey Dunn
By the time the sun rose on the morning of May 3, 1877, the two bodies dangling from the Water ... [Read more]
Male Notte: The Untold Story of Italian Relocation During World War II, by
Geoffrey Dunn
On a quiet evening in February of 1942, fifty years ago this coming month, Celestina Batistina Loero, my great grandmother, ... [Read more]
Field of Dreams: Santa Cruz County's Love Affair with Baseball, by
Geoffrey Dunn
1930 was a big year for professional baseball in Santa Cruz. Trying to spur the local economy in the midst ... [Read more]
The Death of a Poet, by
Geoffrey Dunn
A great American poet is dead. William "Bill" Everson, known during much of his career as the Dominican monk Brother ... [Read more]
A Personal Memory of Bill Everson, by
Geoffrey Dunn
Autumn, 1975. Kresge College, UCSC. Hot, auspicious. You remember the way he moved, the shuffle of his moccasins against the ... [Read more]
1001 Stagnaros, by
Geoffrey Dunn
One of Robert "Big Boy" Stagnaro's earliest childhood memories is of a small hole next to his father's fish market ... [Read more]
Well into his ninth decade, George Lyle Winterhalder still has a sparkle in his eyes and a bit of the ... [Read more]
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Cor de Gavere's early life had the aura of a tragic fairy tale. She was born in Java, where her parents were Dutch missionaries; by the time she was six years old, illness had claimed the lives of her brother and both parents. An aunt and uncle in north Holland ..." [More]
Excerpted from Cor de Gavere, Artist. 1877-1955 by Nikki Silva
