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Santa Cruz County History - Articles
Browsing Local History Articles tagged "archaeology"
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The Fossil Sea Cow, by
Frank Perry
The skeleton is from a fossil sea cow (Dusisiren jordani) that lived in the Santa Cruz area 10 to 12 ... [Read more]
Some of the Stone Tools Found at the Scotts Valley Site, by
Laurie C. Van De Werfhorst
In 1991, Laurie C. Van De Werfhorst, along with other students in Field Methods in Archaeology Class of De Anza ... [Read more]
"A Well Looking, Affable People... ": The Ohlone of Aulintak/Santa Cruz, by
MaryEllen Ryan
For thousands of years until a mere one hundred fifty years ago, Santa Cruz and its surrounding lands were the ... [Read more]
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The interesting thing to me was that only ONE wall of books, the north wall, came down. But that wall also included our Storage/Work Room, and it was a mess!
These notes are from my Monthly Report, October 1989.
October 18, I checked into the Branch about 7:00 am, ..." [More]
Excerpted from "One Week Later, Story Hour as Usual" - Getting La Selva Beach Branch Open Again by Dorothy Allen
