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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 following collection of "verse" appeared in the local press during the Diphtheria epidemic of the late 1870s. They were abstracted from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the Santa Cruz Courier-Item , the Santa Cruz Local Item , and the Watsonville Pajaronian. Those were the only journals which were being ..." [More]
Excerpted from Voices of the Heart: Memorial Poems by Phil Reader