Pippin is the newest library volunteer. Set design and photo courtesy of Lee Anne at Bancroft Library.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
New Library Volunteer
Pippin is the newest library volunteer. Set design and photo courtesy of Lee Anne at Bancroft Library.
Coexistence between Chippy and Bugaboo
Courtesy of Lee Anne at Bancroft Library, we have found a true truce between a cat and a hamster. Apparently the cat, curious as she might be, is more interested in her own blanket outside the window.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Book Review: Pathways to the past: adventures in Santa Cruz County history
Pathways to the past: adventures in Santa Cruz County history by Alverda Orlando and 21 other contributors.
2009, 279 pages, illustrated, Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA.
Pathways to the past is not the first book on the history of Santa Cruz County. As a matter of fact, at the time of this writing, Santa Cruz Public Libraries' catalog alone shows 135 titles on its history from early ones like Illustrations of Santa Cruz County, California, with historical sketch (1879), to recent publications like Letters (1844-1891) of Coleman Purcell Younger and his son Charles Bruce Younger Sr. and their correspondents (2008). However, it is the first book to cover the founding histories of major areas in the county, such as the North Coast, Santa Cruz Mountains, and the cities of Santa Cruz, Capitola and Watsonville. Apart from its coverage of place origins, the book, through a rich well of primary sources, puts a great emphasis on the people, either forgotten or never known to us today, most notably Michael Lodge, the overlooked pioneer, John Howard Watson, the elusive judge, and Lillian A. Howard, the mysterious artist.
Pathways is characterized by its comprehensiveness in its subject coverage, from Steele Brothers' cheese to the Santa Cruz egg laying contest, 1918-1931, from the Auto Tree to Pogonip Polo Club, from early artists to photographers and architects, and from the introduction of spiritualism to government buildings (the Santa Cruz Post Office and its mural artist Henrietta Shore). Another notable characteristic is that all articles included are exhaustively researched by the authorities on the subjects, such as Alverda Orlando on The Deefense of Davenport, Paul Tutwiler on Georgiana Bruce Kirby (and later, organized spiritualism in Santa Cruz), Stanley D. Stevens on pioneering photographers, and Carolyn Swift on Capitola chronology. Even though the book is a compilation of two-dozen articles written by 22 contributors, readers will hardly notice a difference in style and tone. This is largely due to expert and painstaking editing by Joan Gilbert Martin and two other editors. Each article was checked and edited at least three times.
2009, 279 pages, illustrated, Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA.
Pathways to the past is not the first book on the history of Santa Cruz County. As a matter of fact, at the time of this writing, Santa Cruz Public Libraries' catalog alone shows 135 titles on its history from early ones like Illustrations of Santa Cruz County, California, with historical sketch (1879), to recent publications like Letters (1844-1891) of Coleman Purcell Younger and his son Charles Bruce Younger Sr. and their correspondents (2008). However, it is the first book to cover the founding histories of major areas in the county, such as the North Coast, Santa Cruz Mountains, and the cities of Santa Cruz, Capitola and Watsonville. Apart from its coverage of place origins, the book, through a rich well of primary sources, puts a great emphasis on the people, either forgotten or never known to us today, most notably Michael Lodge, the overlooked pioneer, John Howard Watson, the elusive judge, and Lillian A. Howard, the mysterious artist.
Pathways is characterized by its comprehensiveness in its subject coverage, from Steele Brothers' cheese to the Santa Cruz egg laying contest, 1918-1931, from the Auto Tree to Pogonip Polo Club, from early artists to photographers and architects, and from the introduction of spiritualism to government buildings (the Santa Cruz Post Office and its mural artist Henrietta Shore). Another notable characteristic is that all articles included are exhaustively researched by the authorities on the subjects, such as Alverda Orlando on The Deefense of Davenport, Paul Tutwiler on Georgiana Bruce Kirby (and later, organized spiritualism in Santa Cruz), Stanley D. Stevens on pioneering photographers, and Carolyn Swift on Capitola chronology. Even though the book is a compilation of two-dozen articles written by 22 contributors, readers will hardly notice a difference in style and tone. This is largely due to expert and painstaking editing by Joan Gilbert Martin and two other editors. Each article was checked and edited at least three times.
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