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Old Soldiers: Santa Cruz County Civil War Veterans, by
Robert L. Nelson
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On Location in Santa Cruz County, by
Ann Young
On Location in Santa Cruz County is an extensive list of films shot entirely or partially in Santa Cruz County, ... [Read more]
On Location in Santa Cruz County - Bibliography, by
Ann Young
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Bret Harte in "The Movies", by
Josephine Clifford McCrackin
Among the most sacredly guarded of my few treasures are two bound volumes of the Overland Monthly, the magazine that ... [Read more]
On Location in Santa Cruz, by
Lisa Jensen
With Jane Seymour in the foreground, it's hard to pay attention to the background. But those of you who were ... [Read more]
For almost a score of years the town had slumbered in obscurity--and blessed contentment. Some time before that, it had ... [Read more]
ZaSu Pitts: Actress 1898-1963, by
Barbara Giffen
A career actress who successfully made the transition from silent movies to talking pictures to television, ZaSu Pitts appeared in ... [Read more]
ZaSu Pitts grew up in Santa Cruz. In her book, "Candy Hits" she recalled... [Read more]
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Two weeks after her marriage in 1876, Mary Hallock Foote reluctantly journeyed west with her new husband. It was with great difficulty that she left her closeknit Quaker family, sophisticated friends, and budding career as an illustrator. In her later memoirs she wrote, "No girl ever wanted less to 'go ..." [More]
Excerpted from Mary Hallock Foote, Writer and Illustrator. 1847-1938 by Edna E. Kimbro
