Podcasts about Alta California

California has long reigned as the land of plenty, a place where the sun always shines and opportunity always beckons. Even prior to its statehood in 1850, it captured the world's imagination. We think of bearded prospectors lured by the promise of gold. We imagine its early embrace of immigrant labor during the railroad boom as prologue to its diverse social fabric today. But what lies underneath the myths is far more complicated. Thanks to his extensive research, Michael Hiltzik uncovers the unvarnished truth about the state we think we know well. From the Spanish incursions into what became known as Alta California to the rise of Big Tech, the history of California is one of stark contradictions. In rich, previously overlooked detail, we see its earliest statesmen wreaking havoc among native peoples while racing to draft their own constitution prior to statehood. And gold-hungry settlers venturing into the Sierra foothills only to leave with little, while a handful of their suppliers turn themselves into millionaire railroad magnates. Wars erupted over water as Los Angeles boomed, and early efforts to tame the vast landscape created a haven for fossil fuel extraction and environmental conservation alike. Hollywood politicians stoked fears, contributing to a centuries-long tradition of anti-Asian violence. And, quite remarkably, both legal redlining and free higher education took root at the same time. Hiltzik brings a fresh critical eye to his historical accounts—from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark of progressivism—demonstrating why California has left an indelible mark on the United States and the world. Organizer: George Hammond   A Humanities Member-led Forum program. Forums at the Club are organized and run by volunteer programmers who are members of The Commonwealth Club, and they cover a diverse range of topics. Learn more about our Forums.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Chumash Rebellion   Welcome to a holiday episode of THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast, where we dive into the myths and truths surrounding the most propagandized narratives of American history. Yes, Thanksgiving is upon us—a time that can range from warm gatherings with loved ones to fiery debates with relatives reveling in the "glorious" Trump victory over "that communist Kamala Harris." But as we carve the turkey, we often forget—or perhaps never truly knew—the histories that make up this holiday and its complex intersections with the lives of Native Americans. Tonight, we take a sharp detour from the saccharine tales of "Pilgrims and Indians" with our esteemed guest, historian Joe Payne, who will unpack the story of the Chumash Rebellion of 1824. It was a powerful and successful uprising against the oppressive mission system in Alta California—a narrative systematically erased by colonialism's historical whitewashing. Prepare for revelations that will enrich—or weaponize—your Thanksgiving dinner debates. Joe Payne will illuminate the Chumash not as the "savages" that racist missionaries painted them to be, but as a sophisticated and resilient people forced into colonial servitude by Spanish Franciscans. Through their heroic uprising, they defied their oppressors and reclaimed their autonomy, even if only briefly. Tonight's episode promises an academic and gripping journey into this hidden history. Please join us in welcoming Joe Payne to the podcast!   Read Joe's work here: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/forum/vol15/iss1/9/   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles   Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/

As long as you remember... this is the NSFW Bonus part, come on along.We are back in Alta California when the wine was Spanish, and the churches were all adobe.  Americans were eyeing the other side of the continent... but only in a desultory manner. Snd the richest people of the land - were giant jerks with no thought of the little people actaully doing all the labor, or the local tribes who had been there for a minute.  Like a real long time.Anyway - if you'd like to Telanovela up your history, let's Zorro!What the Hell is going on?  That's the entire sentiment of this episode.And well, as viewers always trying to figure things out we may have brought it on ourselves.One approach of course is to take one story line and then make it endlessly twisty - each twist more diabolical than the last and it's some of the these post Game of Thrones shows where eventually people just can't care anymore.  The characters are so contradictory - nothing matters anymore.The other, more fun approach is to just keep throwing in new characters (who's Guadalupe Montero?), sting out plot points (what is up with the bear pins?) and moving the story around to new locations (how are we in New York - err Nueva York?)And that is what Zorro has chosen to do, because it is a fun show!  So buckle those swashes and let's go! (That will get old, I know.  But not yet)As always - you can reach us on the internets.Jamie Lewis (plagueofstrength.com & IG @plagueofstrength)Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over)

Dynamic dishes, rich backgrounds, and a legacy of flavor are all on the menu in Marisel Salazar's debut cookbook Latin-ish: More Than 100 Recipes Celebrating American Latino Cuisines. Building on her heritage with years of research and travel, Salazar takes fellow cooks and food enthusiasts on a flavor-packed journey through the Latine diaspora. This collection of recipes draws from a wide range of community-driven cooking and immigrant experience, translated into the kitchens of today. Latin-ish is a unique deep dive into regional Latine food influences across the geography of the United States – from Floribbean to Tex-Mex, from Alta California to NYC Latine, and more. Latin-ish combines lively origin stories with step-by-step directions and vibrant photography to guide readers in putting together playful plates of food and history. Thoughtfully organized and contextualized, Salazar aims to provide a little something for every craving – day or night. Dig into indulgent breakfasts like Guava Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls, boost your snack game by crunching into a Mango Chamoy Salad or Yuca Fries with Cilantro Lime Aioli, warm your dinner guests up with Arkansas Tamales or Cuban Pizza, and treat yourself at the end of a long day with a slice of Plantain Upside-Down Cake or a Oaxaca Old-Fashioned. The recipes of Latin-ish raise a glass to a diverse spread of Latine roots while leaving ample room to grow in an ever-evolving corner of the modern American culinary landscape. Marisel Salazar is a writer, cook, recipe developer, and host with a focus on cultural context in the food world. She is the creator of the column Eating Off Duty for the Michelin Guide. Her writing, recipes, and on-camera work has been featured on platforms such as Zagat, Infatuation, Food & Wine, NYT Cooking, The Spruce Eats, and Thrillist. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Newswomen's Press Club of New York, and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Agueda Pacheco Flores is a journalist in Seattle with a focus on Latinx culture and Mexican American identity. She was previously an arts and culture writer at Crosscut where she enjoyed writing about Chicano galleries, Cumbia in the Pacific Northwest as well as shining a light on emerging Latinx artists. Before Crosscut, she worked for The Seattle Times, where she was a general assignment reporter covering breaking news, crime, and federal courts. Originally from Queretaro, Mexico, Pacheco Flores is inspired by her own bicultural upbringing as an undocumented immigrant and proud Washingtonian. Her work has appeared in The Seattle Globalist, Seattle Weekly, The Daily, and the South Seattle Emerald. Buy the Book Latin-Ish: More Than 100 Recipes Celebrating American Latino Cuisines Book Larder

By January 30, 1847, the Pueblo de Yerba Buena was officially renamed the Town of San Francisco. Mexican laws weren't very well written, if written at all, which left the US military in charge of creating order in a land (Alta California), that wasn't used to having rules. This episode is a discussion between Girlina and architectural historian, Jonathon Lammers, regarding the Laws of the Town of San Francisco 1847, as captured in what is believed to be California's first pamphlet written entirely in English.monkeyblocksf@gmail.com (email me directly)monkeyblocksf.buzzsprout.com (for transcripts and cited sources)buymeacoffee.com/monkeyblocksf (support the podcast)twitter.com/monkeyblocksf (follow me)facebook.com/MonkeyBlockSF (follow me)

In case you are new here - these are the NSFW Eps.  Not serious food content, fit for sharing with everyone.  Instead, we are being silly about media - mostly about the 19th Century.   And there are swears.  Sharing this becasue this Zorro series is very joyously fun.Catch Season 1 of Zorro on Amazon Prime Video to watch alongAfter watching the movie Zorro - it became clear, we need more of Zorro.  We also need more of the 19th Century Americas... from something other than the USA America perspective. Because, during the 19th century, the Americnan America was a very different shape than the USA we live in now.  There were lots of other nations in those spaces we conveniently forget about. Also - the 21st century adventure and super hero stories have gotten a little... dark.  We need a little light.  Not to mention, some way better clothes.So get out the cape, saddle up and let's ride for better adventures with Zorro in Alta California.  A different way to pursue fashion, fighting and hey, let's have some fun.As always - you can reach us on the internets.Jamie Lewis (plagueofstrength.com & IG @plagueofstrength)and his NEW YouTube Apprearances on Carved Outta Stone Wednesday AM or Friday PMSchedule Details: instagram.com/carvedouttastone&Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over)

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Session seven of a Twelve Step workshop led by Peter M. in Alta, CA - May 3-5, 2024. Find us at https://maddogspeakers.com/.

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This week Dominic and sticky catch up with fellow comedian Andres Taboada, discussing comedy, late diagnosis, and a film featuring Ricky  join us for good grief: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/good-grief-tickets-879730205727?aff=oddtdtcreator   Merch Store: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1429951216/un-poquito   Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unpoquitopod   Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/eDAhPfZZ8n   Follow Us:  Andres Taboada: https://www.instagram.com/andreswhat_?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Rian Reyes https://linktr.ee/RianReyes   Dominic Angel https://linktr.ee/Domsiethebomsie   Ricky Macias: https://linktr.ee/therickymac   Un Poquito Podcast https://linktr.ee/unpoquitopod   Legacy Teas and Spices: https://legacyteasandspices.com/t/shop-teas?page=2 code: UP20   Theme music by: Piano Blac https://www.instagram.com/piano_blac/?hl=en

Happy Black History Month! This week, we have a special guest, Ross Murph, aka MORFBOSS, a professional genealogist born in New York with Southern roots. He uses his research to uplift people and uncover overlooked parts of history. Ross shares examples from Los Angeles, CA, and Washington, DC, to tell the history of Black and Latino land loss. According to the American Bar Association, as an example, by 1997, Black farmers lost more than 90 percent of the 16 million acres they owned in 1910. This massive decline was possible through white privilege, power, and influence with local government officials to exploit laws. This presents itself in urban planning and real estate through government misuse of eminent domain, compensation below market value, discriminatory tax assessments, and coordinated discrimination. Press play to hear: Nimo & Jas share personal stories of ancestry and land ownership Arlington Freedman's Village (now Arlington National Cemetery) and its history of slavery and emancipationLand loss related to Pio Pico, the last governor of Alta California under Mexican ruleLearn more from Ross and follow him @morfboss on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.Thank you for listening and tune in every other Tuesday where Nimo and Jas keep it Four Degrees to the Streets.Follow us on X and Instagram @the4degreespod.Or send us an email to connect with us!ResourcesProperty Rights: The Neglected Theme of 20th-Century American PlanningProperty Rights in American History - Hillsdale CollegeKnow Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America's Black Cities (Book)Taking on State Law in Defense of Family Farms - The Piedmont Environmental CouncilFreedman's Village - Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)Whose Land? Claims at Arlington Estate - Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)John Bryce Syphax Freedman's Village

Before the Mexican American war, Californy was Alta California. Some Californio folk didn't like their downgrade to second class citizens and foreigners in their own country. One dude was Vasquez, king of manic Hispanic banditos. T-Shirts by How the West was Fucked Podcast | TeePublic T-Shirts by Hell Creek Studios | TeePublic #howthewestwasfucked #htwwf #americanhistory #oldwest #wildwest #vasquezrocks #gorn #californio #altacaliforniauberalles

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 942, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: coastal communities 1: Incorporated in 1901, there's no place like this Alaskan city on Norton Sound. Nome. 2: Yale University is this city's largest employer. New Haven, Connecticut. 3: Gloucester in this state has been a fishing center for over 3 centuries. Massachusetts. 4: Hey Jack, it was the capital of Alta California from 1775 to 1846. Monterey. 5: A whole lotta wood chips are shipped out of Coos Bay in this state. Oregon. Round 2. Category: st. augustine 1: St. Augustine, Florida boasts a "farm" founded in 1893 for these reptiles with more than 20 related species. alligators. 2: Ending a long period of this country's rule, 1819's Adams-Onis treaty turned St. Augustine over to the U.S.. Spain. 3: Of course St. Augustine is home to this legendary spring sought by Ponce de Leon: okay, it's a tourist spot opened in 1901. the Fountain of Youth. 4: Believe it or not, this man's oldest Odditorium of weird stuff is located in St. Augustine. Ripley. 5: St. Augustine's Castillo de San Marcos is an old fort built from a form of limestone known as coquina, or "little" these. shells. Round 3. Category: 5 diamonds 1: In 1993 and 1994 Mile High Stadium was this N.L. team's home field. the Rockies. 2: A red seat 502 feet from home plate in this ballpark marks the landing spot of a Ted Williams homer. Fenway Park. 3: Ogren Park, home diamond to this state's Missoula Osprey, has a live osprey nest beyond the outfield fence. Montana. 4: A huge apartment complex sits on the Brooklyn site that once housed this historic baseball field. Ebbets Field. 5: A scaled-down version of the one in Chicago, L.A.'s Wrigley Field was the first home of this American League team. the Angels. Round 4. Category: works of art 1: An 1871 painting of an old woman in a long black dress, sitting in a chair. Whistler's Mother. 2: A statue of the Madonna with the dead Christ in her arms. Pietà. 3: A 1920 painting of a grim-faced couple with a pitchfork, standing in front of a farmhouse. American Gothic. 4: An 1889 painting of a sky of blue and yellow swirling over a small village. Starry Night. 5: An 1880 statue of a naked man with his arm on his knee and his chin resting on his hand. The Thinker. Round 5. Category: wine if you must 1: Hock is a British term for the Rhine wines from this country. Germany. 2: When uncorked, a wine is said to begin to do this, something Faith Hill sang about. breathe. 3: Term for the juice of freshly crushed grapes (Hint: remember the category). must. 4: In the Bordeaux region this term refers to a vineyard rather than a castle. chateau. 5: The Asti region of Italy is known for this "foamy" or "sparkling" wine. spumante. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Walking with the Saints Podcast | Feast of St. Junipero Serra, The Apostle ofCalifornia | August 28   St. Junipero was a Spanish priest and a missionary of the Franciscan Order. He is credited with establishing the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He founded in Baja California the first nine of the 21 Spanish Missions, from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then the Spanish-occupied Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain. St. Junipero was born Miguel Jose Serra y Ferrer in Petra, Mallorca in an island off coast of the Mediterranean Coast of Spain on November 24,1713. At age seven, he already started to help his parents work in the fields. He was fond of visiting the Franciscan Friars at San Bernardino, and had his primary education at the school of the Friars. At age 16, he studied philosophy and on September 14, 1730, He entered the Franciscan Order, became a novice and was given the name Junipero, to honor Brother Juniper, one of the first companions of St. Francis of Assisi. As a religious, He followed strictly the rigid schedule of prayers, meditation, choir singing, study, spiritual reading and domestic chores. Among his favorite readings were the lives of Franciscan missionaries who were holy and suffered martyrdom. He became a priest in 1737. For three years, he taught philosophy while studying theology and later received a doctorate in theology. Then he applied to go to the foreign missions. Together with Francisco Palou and a few others they sailed on to Vera Cruz. But in order to get to New Mexico, their destination, they had to go on horseback. Junipero refused to take a horse, following a rule of St. Francis that only in extreme necessity and in infirmity must a Franciscan travel on horseback. on the way, his left foot swelled and then bled, with a wound that he suffered the whole of his life. The object of their mission were Indians, natives who tried to evade the Spanish conquerors, whose soldiers were around to control the lives of the natives. They were hunters, farmers, and men of various trades and had their own religion. Junipero and his companions tried to help the people improve economically. They built roads, introduced skilled farm labor and taught the women knitting and weaving. They introduced Catholic practices and the people got involved. On June 24, 1767, King Carlos III expelled the Jesuits who earlier had already established several Missions. They were sent away without allowing them to bring any of their possessions. After the departure of the Jesuits, the Franciscans took over. Junipero was appointed president of the Mission in Baja, California, but they were only allowed to manage the people's spiritual affairs and other matters were controlled by the soldiers. St. Junipero and his companions were able to establish the following Missions: San Diego de Alcala, San Carlos Borromeo Carmelo, San Antonio de Padua, San Gabriel Arcangel, San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, San Juan Capistrano, San Francisco de Asis, Santa Clara de Asis, San Buenaventura, Santa Barbara, all in the State of California. The mission station in San Buenaventura in Ventura, California became a parish in 2020. Junipero died at the age of 70 at San Carlos Borromeo Mission on August 28, 1784. He was beatified by Pope St. John Paul ll, at the Vatican on September 25, 1988 and was canonized in Washington D.C. by Pope Francis on September 23, 2015. For his great accomplishment in founding the Missions in California, he is called “THE APOSTLE OF CALIFORNIA.” Virtue: piety, humility, penitence, courage, fortitude, excellence, integrity, charity, generosity and temperance. Prayer: “Lord, give us the grace to help other people with our examples and words.”         

Originally from London, James T. Bartlett has been living in Los Angeles since 2004. In 2012 he published Gourmet Ghosts - Los Angeles, an alternative guide to the history and ghost stories behind some of the city's oldest bars, restaurants and hotels, while 2016's Gourmet Ghosts 2 focused on true crimes that took place at more of L.A.'s notable locations and eateries. The books led to lectures, events, book club hosting, and appearances on radio, podcasts, and television shows including Ghost Adventures and The UnXplained. His most recent book is The Alaskan Blonde: Sex, Secrets, and the Hollywood Story that Shocked America, a true crime book reexamining a scandalous 1953 murder that began in Alaska and ended in Hollywood, while his short story “Death Under the Stars” was included in the recent Sisters in Crime Los Angeles anthology Entertainment To Die For. As a travel and lifestyle journalist and historian, he has written for the Los Angeles Times, BBC, Los Angeles Magazine, ALTA California, High Life, Hemispheres, Westways, Frommers, Crime Reads, American Way, Atlas Obscura, The Guardian, Real Crime, Variety, Whitechapel Journal, History Ireland and Bizarre, among others. You can find out more at www.gourmetghosts.com and www.thealaskanblonde.com

Letters from CaliforniaThree letters, were anonymously mailed from the Pueblo de Yerba Buena, dated between June 10th and June 29th 1846. The letters were, and probably still are, quite the mystery, not only because no one definitively knows who wrote them, but for the depth of military knowledge the writer had about the happenings in Alta California. Another point of personal interest, the letters were written from our own backyard, Yerba Buena. Hubert Howe Bancroft considers these mystery letters to be the best ‘in the moment' account of the Bear Flag Revolt, and they are the earliest known publication regarding the Bear Flag Revolt just before and just after the Revolt. monkeyblocksf@gmail.com (email me directly)monkeyblocksf.buzzsprout.com (for transcripts and cited sources)twitter.com/monkeyblocksf (follow me)facebook.com/MonkeyBlockSF (follow me)

Links for audiobook, print and kindle editions. Russell's audiobook catalog. There was a rivalry among these three storytellers, for they came from different tribes, and the legends of their people were not the same. Tecla was from Baja, or Lower, California, where Juanita and Antonio's mother had once lived. Old Klayukat's tribal home was to the far north, at Puget Sound. He had been brought down by a king's vessel and given into the charge of the padres at the mission of San Francisco d'Assisi. There he had become a Christian and had been taught the saddler's trade. He had been employed by the children's grandfather ever since their father was a little boy. Wantasson was from Alta California, which is the California that now belongs to the United States. Before he had become Christianized at the mission, he had wandered about and so knew stories from the different tribes of the country. To Juanita and Antonio it mattered little from what places the stories came—whether from the northern Oregon Country, Baja California, or their own Alta California. All the tales were fascinating to them, and they were always eager to do any favor for Wantasson, Klayukat, or Tecla in the hope of winning a story in return. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/russell-stamets/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/russell-stamets/support

Genevieve Mattar and Kevin Branscum met in South America while exploring the Andes ruins and the Amazon forests. He was an American seeking adventure, and she was a travel guide leading a group of French Canadians. The couple soon married and as Kevin was a Southern Californian and seasoned Baja traveler, they began exploring the remote regions of Baja Sur. They became interested in the old mission trail while visiting the Sierra de San Francisco rock art. One day on a mule ride, they came across a track that looked different from the one they were following. They asked their local guide about it. He replied, “That is the old mission trail, el camino antiguo de los misioneros.” El Camino Real. The El Camino Real, or “King's Highway,” is the mission trail leading from Loreto in Baja Súr, Mexico, to all Californias. They include Baja Súr, Baja, and Alta California, better known as the state of California. The mystery of that trail, combined with its history and the beauty of its surroundings, hooked them. For twenty-two years, they've regularly returned to explore El Camino Real, locating and accurately mapping additional trail segments. They hope to find and preserve the exact position of as much of the El Camino Real as possible. Only through sharing the story and developing eco-tourism --will the historic trail remain alive. Learn more about their work here.

This is the ancestral land of the First People, the Kumeyaay. For thousands of years, fresh water flowed down from mountains to the east, carving out a course and, with its sediments, creating the Tijuana River Estuary when it mixed with the waters of the sea. All that time, plants and animals adapted to the evolving environment, with Kumeyaay using the estuary and its surrounding land for food-gathering and habitation. With the arrival of Spanish colonists and soldiers in May of 1769, all those patterns began to change and the natural landscape was subject to a different idea of ownership and land management. This shift was cemented when in 1821, the Tijuana Estuary became part of Alta California. In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the U.S.-Mexican War – and ceded present-day California to the United States, eventually solidifying borders that changed people's ways of life. You might have heard the war between the United States and Mexico referred to as the Mexican American War. We prefer to use the term U.S. -Mexican War because it acknowledges that Mexico is also a part of America, as well as the hard feelings that still exist to our neighbor to the south regarding that war. In this episode of Divided Together, we'll hear from Rachel St. John, an historian who wrote a book about the early U.S.-Mexico border period from 1848 to the 1930s. How did a simple line on a map transform into the regulated divide we have today? In this episode historian Rachel St. John shares how an array of officials, land pirates, and law enforcement created the foundations for the modern border control we have today. Divided Together is a California State Parks podcast series for Border Field State Park, brought to you by Parks California and the generosity of an anonymous donor. Adam Greenfield is the engineer and co-producer of this podcast.  Anne Marie Tipton is the host and co-producer.

In South to Freedom, prize-winning historian Alice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. Join us when Alice L. Baumgartner shares an essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

Bio: Travel/lifestyle journalist and historian James T. Bartlett has written for the Los Angeles Times, BBC, Los Angeles Magazine, ALTA California, Hemispheres, Westways, American Way, Atlas Obscura, The Guardian, Real Crime, Ripperologist Magazine, Crime Reads, History Ireland and Variety, among others. His new true crime book, The Alaskan Blonde: Sex, Secrets, and the Hollywood Story that Shocked America, is available now, and as the author of Gourmet Ghosts – Los Angeles and Gourmet Ghosts 2, alternative guides to the history, crimes, and ghost stories at some of the city's oldest bars, restaurants, and hotels, he has appeared on Ghost Adventures and The UnXplained. You can find more at www.gourmetghosts.com, and "Daily Deaths" are on #GourmetGhosts and @GourmetGhosts Gourmet Ghosts Website www.gourmetghosts.com Website for the Alaskan Blonde www.thealaskanblonde.com Gourmet Ghosts Los Angeles https://www.amazon.com/Gourmet-Ghosts-James-T-Bartlett/dp/0984973001/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1WWH9329XP5B8&keywords=gourmet+ghosts&qid=1670899033&s=books&sprefix=gourmet+ghosts%2Cstripbooks%2C178&sr=1-1 Gourmet Ghosts II https://www.amazon.com/Gourmet-Ghosts-James-T-Bartlett/dp/0997582901/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1WWH9329XP5B8&keywords=gourmet+ghosts&qid=1670899119&s=books&sprefix=gourmet+ghosts%2Cstripbooks%2C178&sr=1-2 This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org If you follow my podcast and enjoy it, I'm on @buymeacoffee. If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts

Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés fue un fraile que nació en Aragón en 1738. Profundamente religioso, solicitó unirse a las misiones americanas para propagar el catolicismo por el nuevo continente. Allí, y tras recorrer 2.500 kilómetros, llega en 1768 a la misión de San Javier del Bac, ubicada en un lugar cercano a lo que hoy es Tucson, Arizona. Su objetivo allí era continuar con la cristianización de las numerosas tribus indias que había en la zona, algunas de carácter amistosas, pero otras muy beligerantes, como los apaches.Con gran inquietud exploradora, y tras sufrir varios ataques en la misión, Garcés decide ir más allá de su misión, recorriendo territorios que nunca habían sido pisados por un europeo, buscando nuevas gentes a las que evangelizar. En este camino, e investigando nuevas rutas para unir Sonora con Alta California, se adentra en el desierto de Mojave, y siguiendo esta ruta hacia el Oeste, pone pies por primera vez en lo que hoy es Nevada.Aunque no se sabe con exactitud la ruta que siguió, lo que descubre es un territorio agreste, con un calor insoportable, en la que con el apoyo de las autoridades españolas decide crear dos misiones: La Concepción y San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuñer. La hostilidad india provoca que estos dos pueblos no salgan adelante, pero sirve para establecer una ruta clave para que misioneros, soldados y colonos lleguen a California. Allí, las misiones y presidios se multiplican a un ritmo y con una estabilidad que no habían conocido antes.El propio Garcés es el encargado de ponerle nombre al territorio, al que llama Nevada al estar limitado al oeste por la Sierra Nevada californiana.Pese a todo, la región pronto deja de estar en manos españolas. El recién independizado México toma su control en 1823, pero mostraron poco interés por su colonización, debido a su clima desértico que no facilitaba la agricultura. Nevada continuó durante décadas estando habitada solo por nativos locales.Estados Unidos derrota a México en 1848, y como consecuencia, se hace con el control de toda la región de Nevada. Ellos sí empezaron a colonizar poco a poco la región. Se crearon varios asentamientos urbanos, cuya principal misión era abastecer a las personas que iban al oeste americano en busca de oportunidades.Nevada empieza a crecer en 1859, cuando se encuentran importantes yacimientos de plata, y algunos menores de oro, en la región de Virginia City, el primer asentamiento importante. Miles de personas llegaron a la región, tanto desde el este de Estados Unidos como de la propia California. La población pasó de unos pocos de centenares en 1850 a casi 7.000 una década después.En 1864, en plena Guerra de Secesión, Nevada se convierte en el Estado número 36 de Estados Unidos. Este reconocimiento fue un poco irregular, porque no cumplía con todas las condiciones que establecía la Constitución para ser elevado a Estado, pero Lincoln y el Congreso hicieron la vista gorda en su búsqueda de nuevos apoyos.La aparición de nuevos yacimientos minerales es lo que impulsa la economía de la región durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y los inicios del XX. Pero es en esa época, en concreto en 1905, cuando se produce un momento clave para la región. Entonces no lo sabían, pero estaban modificando la economía de la ciudad para siempre.El senador Clark era dueño de un ferrocarril que iba de Salt Lake City a Los Ángeles. Ante las necesidades de agua que requerían las locomotoras a vapor de la época, unidas a las reparaciones que necesitaban los trenes, llevan al empresario a establecer una parada en Las Vegas. Se trataba de un oasis en medio del desierto, que había logrado cierta relevancia como pausa entre las personas que se dirigían al oeste.Con la llegada del tren, el número de habitantes en la ciudad se multiplica, y se establece un pueblo ya, que dependía al 100% del ferrocarril. Esto provocaba que fuera un pueblo que se mantenía activo 24 horas al día, porque tenían que estar disponibles para el tren y para los viajeros. Su ubicación en medio del desierto, y la lejanía con otros grandes núcleos de población, hacía que en Las Vegas vivieran un poco a su antojo. A pesar de que el juego y el licor estaban prohibidos a nivel estatal, allí seguían estando disponibles. Había pequeños casinos, y nadie hacía nada por cerrarlos, porque a nadie le importaban. Y a los visitantes les encantaban.Con estos ingredientes, la ciudad seguía creciendo, pero más allá de los divertimentos alegales, la vida en Las Vegas no era fácil. Había pocas infraestructuras, ni siquiera había calles asfaltadas, y el calor en verano era criminal. El impulso llega a finales de la década de los 20, cuando el crac del 29 lastra la economía de todo el país, pero Nevada mantiene cierta tranquilidad, porque se está llevando a cabo uno de los mayores proyectos de ingeniería de la historia: la construcción de la presa Hoover, para embalsar el río Colorado.Con el país en crisis, llegan a Las Vegas miles de personas de todo el mundo, en busca de empleo y oportunidades. Era una obra tan impresionante que incluso llegaban los primeros turistas, que querían verla de cerca. Y aprovechaban para pasar la noche en Las Vegas, donde ya se veían las primeras luces de neón.En 1931, con la obra ya en marcha, se aprueban dos leyes que acabaron siendo fundamentales para Las Vegas y para todo el Estado: la del divorcio y la que legalizaba el juego. Fue el impulso definitivo para el turismo, que llegaba en masa a disfrutar de todo tipo de vicios.¿Quién más llega a la ciudad con los turistas? Los mafiosos. Nos guste o no, el crimen organizado jugó un papel fundamental para la rapidísima expansión de la ciudad. Su dinero, su sucio dinero, es el que impulsa la construcción de grandes y llamativos casinos. Como el Flamingo, el primero de todos, impulsado por el gánster Bugsy Siegel.El siguiente gran paso llega tras la segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando los hoteles se revisten de lujo. Y la ciudad se convierte en sinónimo de entretenimiento. Y con la caída de Fulgencio Batista en Cuba se produce otro gran impulso, ya que los empresarios estadounidenses ligados al presidente redirigen todas sus inversiones a Las Vegas.La música se establece como otro pilar fundamental para consolidar el turismo como principal modelo de negocio. Los casinos contratan a grandes estrellas de la época para que den conciertos exclusivos en sus negocios. Por allí pasan Elvis Presley, Sinatra, Jerry Lewis... Una tradición que llega hasta nuestros días.A pesar de que la economía se ha diversificado, y que la construcción y la industria manufacturera cada vez tienen más peso, el turismo se ha consolidado como la principal fuente de ingresos de la región.Esa dependencia del turismo ha lastrado las cuentas de Nevada en varias ocasiones, como en la crisis de 2008, o durante la pandemia, donde los indicadores económicos del Estado estaban entre los peores del país.No es el caso actual. Tras la crisis de la Covid la economía se ha recuperado con fuerza, a lomos del juego, lo que ha permitido a Nevada registrar en 2021 su récord de ingresos, con 13.500 millones de dólares procedentes de la actividad de los casinos. Las reinas siguen siendo las máquinas tragaperras, seguidas a gran distancia de las ruletas.El optimismo baña Nevada, pues a la resistencia que ha demostrado la industria del juego aún hay que sumarle la recuperación de los negocios y los viajes internacionales, que aún tienen margen de crecimiento. La casa siempre gana.

Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain by Mark Twain audiobook. This is a collection of newspaper articles written by Samuel Clemens, for various newspapers, between 1862 and 1881. After Feb 3rd 1863, he began using the pen name Mark Twain. This compilation is the work of Project Gutenberg and contains articles from TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE, THE SAN FRANCISCO DAILY MORNING CALL, THE SACRAMENTO DAILY UNION, DAILY HAWAIIAN HERALD, ALTA CALIFORNIA, THE CHICAGO REPUBLICAN, and THE GALAXY.

Our final mission-focused episode, including the environmental effects of unleashing European pack animals onto the environment, the demographic effects of unleashing disease epidemics on native cultures, and how the consequent specter of death also threatened to kill the colonial economy in Alta California.

July 1: Saint Junipero Serra, Priest 1713–1784Memorial; Liturgical Color: WhitePatron Saint of California and vocations“Always forward!” was his motto and his lifeThe United States of America's impressive Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., includes the majestic, semicircular Statuary Hall. Each of the fifty states chooses two citizens of historic importance to represent it in the Hall. Statues of one nun and four Catholic priests, two of them saints, grace Statuary Hall, including today's saint. Junipero Serra was the founder of California. He was the pathbreaking, indestructible priest who trekked California's mountains, valleys, deserts, and shores to found nine of its eventual twenty-one missions. California's rugged cattle culture, its luxurious orchards and rolling vineyards, its distinctive Mission architecture, and its blending of Mexican and Native American heritage are the legacy of Father Serra and his Franciscan confreres. The Franciscan city names tell the story: San Francisco, Ventura (Saint Bonaventure), San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, Our Lady Queen of the Angels (Los Angeles) and on and on. The Franciscans simply made California what it is.Father Junipero Serra was baptized as Michael Joseph on Mallorca, an island in the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain. He grew up dirt poor and devoutly Catholic. He joined the Franciscans as a youth and moved to the large city of Palma de Mallorca, where he took the religious name of Junipero in honor of one of Saint Francis of Assisi's first followers. After priestly ordination, Father Junipero obtained a doctorate in philosophy and taught Franciscan seminarians. He was destined to lead a successful life as an intelligent, holy, and pious intellectual. But in the Spring of 1749, he felt the Lord calling him to become a missionary to New Spain (Mexico). On the fateful day of his departure from his large Franciscan monastery, he kissed the feet of all his brother Franciscans, from the oldest to the youngest. He then boarded a ship and sailed away from his native island for the first time and the last time. He would never see his family again. Our saint's life began in earnest in middle age. Long years of intellectual, spiritual, and ascetic preparation steeled his body, mind, and will for the rigors to come.Arriving in the port of Veracruz, Father Serra walked hundreds of miles to Mexico City rather than travel on horseback. Along this first of many treks, he was bitten by either a snake or a spider and developed an open wound that never healed, causing him near constant pain for the rest of his life. Father Serra spent the first several years of his missionary life in a mountainous region of Central Mexico among an indigenous population that had encountered Spaniards, and the Catholic religion, two centuries before. Father Serra wanted a rawer missionary experience. He wanted to meet and convert pagans who knew nothing of Christianity. After years of faithful service as a missionary, church builder, preacher, and teacher in Central Mexico, Father Junipero finally had his chance. The Franciscans were tasked with leading the religious dimension of the first great Spanish expedition into Alta California, the present day American state. If Father Serra had never gone to California, he may still have been a saint, but one known to God alone. It was the challenge of California that made Father Junipero into Saint Junipero.Already in his mid-fifties, Father Serra was the head priest of a large migration of men, women, soldiers, cattle, and provisions whose goal was to establish Spanish Catholic settlements in California. Integral to this cultural and evangelical effort was the founding of California's missions, the vast farms, cattle ranches, churches, communities, and schools that have left such an enduring mark on California. For the last fifteen years of his life, Saint Junipero was seemingly everywhere in California—walking, confirming, working, building, preaching, fasting, planning, sailing, writing, arguing, founding, and praying. He exhausted his poor, emaciated body. He was recognized by all as the indispensable man. Father Junipero died quietly at the San Carlos Mission in Carmel just as the United States was becoming a country on the other side of the continent. He did for the West Coast what George Washington and better known founders did for the East Coast. He founded a society, in all of its complexity. Decades later, Americans migrated to far-off California, newly incorporated into the federal union, looking for gold, and were surprised to discover a distinctive culture as rugged, layered, and rich as the one they had left behind.California's foundational events were distinctly Catholic just as the Eastern colonies' were distinctly Protestant. When ceremoniously inaugurating an early mission, Father Junipero said a High Mass, sang Gregorian chant, processed with an image of the Virgin Mary, and had the Spanish galleons offshore fire their cannons at the consecration. What powerful solemnity! The roots of large regions of the United States run deep into Southern, not Northern, soil, and were watered by the Catholic faith, not dissenting Protestantism. The United States was baptized Catholic but raised Protestant. Father Junipero represents the best of that “other” founding of the United States of America.Saint Junipero Serra, inspire us to follow your example of physical perseverance, doctrinal commitment, and spiritual discipline for the good of the Church. You were a model priest, missionary, and Franciscan. May we, too, be great in all that we do.

KJ Sanchez, director and co-adapter (with Karen Zacarias) of “Romeo y Juliet” at Cal Shakes, California Shakespeare Theatre, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded via zencastr on May 20, 2022. Playwright, actor and director, KJ Sanchez is the head of the MFA Directing Program at the University of Texas in Austin. She is founder and CEO of American Records, a theatre company founded “to make plays that chronicle our time,” focusing on documentary plays based on interviews. She is the director and co-author of “RE-ENTRY,” based on conversations with soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. “Romeo y Juliet” is an bilingual adaptation of the Shakespeare play set in 1848 Alta California, with the gender of Romeo changed. It plays at California Shakespeare Theatre, the Bruns, in Orinda, May 25 – June 19, 2022. In the interview, she discusses the origins of the adaptation, how she teaches directors, and the political situation where she works, in the state of Texas. The post KJ Sanchez, director & co-adapter, “Romeo y Juliet,” at Cal Shakes appeared first on KPFA.

Pico Boulevard, Pico Union, Pico Rivera ... they tell the story of one of the most fascinating figures in California's 19th Century history: Pio Pico, the last governor of Alta California under Mexican rule, and a revolutionary who helped make the missions forfeit their land. But at the time of his death, he couldn't afford his own grave. Off-Ramp contributor Chris Greenspon has his quintessentially Californian story. Originally broadcast September, 2015. Support for this podcast is made possible by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to live.This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. (Off-Ramp theme music by Fesliyan Studios.)

Here is the story of a Mexican-American pioneer, healer, trailblazer, businesswoman and landowner. Her name is Doña Juana Briones de Miranda and she is the woman remembered as the "Founding Mother of San Francisco”, for she was one of the first three settlers in Yerba Buena before it became San Francisco. Juana left an important legacy in California. She was an active and caring person who impacted the lives of many people — Hispanic, indigenous and Anglo-American.   In 1769, Marcos Briones and his father Vicente arrived in Alta California from San Luis Potosí, New Spain - today's Mexico. Marcos and Vicente were soldiers in the Portola expedition. In Alta California, Marcos met and married Isidora Tapia. Isidora and her family arrived later, her father Felipe, a soldier on the de Anza expedition in 1776. Star crossed lovers, whose families traveled over 1600 miles on a mission to colonize and explore the region and establish the Mission San Francisco de Asi.    Marcos was a founding settler of Villa de Branciforte, in present-day Santa Cruz. Branciforte was the last of only three secular pueblos founded by the Spanish colonial government of Alta California. On the eastern bluff of the San Lorenzo River, facing Mission Santa Cruz, their daughter Juana  Briones was born in March of 1802. Juana spent the first decade of her life in a wattle-and-daub house doing chores alongside her brothers and sisters, having fun and gaining an extensive knowledge of herbal medicines through her interactions with Native Americans. The majority of the population there was indigenous. When she was ten, her mother Ysidora passed away.   Marcos moved the family to an area called Tennessee Hollow. Marcos began to help build what would become the Presidio of San Francisco. Starting as a fortified military village used for farming and livestock grazing. Juana was shaped by the native people of the region and the language, religion, and institutions of colonial New Spain. She'd learned more about herbs and their medicinal values from the new region from her grandmother, who learned them from native Ohlone women.    Herbs like Yerba Buena (which translates to Good Herb), which provided the first name of the city of San Francisco. It was said the community of Yerba Buena was named for her healing mint tea. She was schooled informally by the Catholic priests at the Mission Dolores. With other military children and the Native Americans who had been rounded up and brought to the mission for “conversion” to Catholicism, she attended regular daily mass but she did not learn to read or write.     Juana met a handsome soldier stationed at the Presidio named Apolinario Miranda. His parents were of Yaqui descent. The Yaqui were indigenous to the Mexican state of Sonora and the Southwestern United States. Juana and Apolinario were married in 1820 and established a farm at the Presidio near the site of El Polin Spring. It is one of the few remaining springs in the city  and runs under the site of her long-vanished home. The spring waters of the were believed to bestow fertility. With that in mind, Juana gave birth to 11 children between 1821 and 1841.   In 1828, Juana had a tragic month when three of her children died and a fourth child passed just one year later in the rugged frontier environment.  Juana was a strong woman. Apolinario was abusive and Juana's time with him was not happy. So abusive that his military superiors reprimanded him for it numerous times. He had a serious drinking problem and wasn't much of a rancher or businessman.    In the area now known as North Beach, near what is now Washington Square, the Briones bought land. Juana was a natural entrepreneur and started a dairy ranch at their new home. They were one of the first three non-indigenous settlers in Yerba Buena who lived somewhere other than on the Presidio or at Mission Dolores. After Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, commerce increased in the San Francisco Bay. Briones excelled in farming and sold milk and produce to the crews of Russian, American and Spanish ships that docked in the bay for the hide and tallow trade.   Juana also treated many illnesses such as smallpox and scurvy patients, delivered babies and set broken jaws. You could not count how many children had their broken bones set by this kind woman. Her reputation as a healer was widely recognized. She trained her nephew, Pablo Briones—who was later known as the Doctor of Bolinas or California in medicinal arts. Her aid to the people of Bolinas during a smallpox outbreak was well-known, and she was loved among Hispanic settlers, native people and the Anglo-Americans alike.   She taught her own children the value of hard work. As soon as they could walk, they learned to pull weeds and how to load the wagon. Her daughters Presentacion and Manuela were fine seamstresses and they did the sailors' laundry and mended their clothes. Her son Jesus went to the boats to see what the men needed, and delivered goods and messages to Juana. She also harbored four runaway sailors who jumped ship because they wanted to remain in California. Two Americans, a Filipino man and a Native American from Connecticut. The men lived with her and Apolinario until 1832.   In 1833, Briones' husband was granted land bordering the Presidio near today's Green and Lyon Streets. Their new home was on another spring called El Ojo de Agua Figueroa.  In 1834, Juana adopted Cecilia, a young Native girl whose parents had died. In 1835, the Presidio was temporarily abandoned when Commandante Vallejo transferred his military headquarters north to Sonoma. It was then that her husband's abuse became intolerable. Marriage was considered indissoluble by society at the time. She turned to the Catholic bishop. “My husband did not earn our money. I did,” she told the bishop, “My husband does not support the family. I do.”  As her husband, he had access to any property she acquired. The bishop was moved by her plea, knowing full well her husband was a good-for-nothing, and with the mayor's help, the bishop helped her move to the western foot of Loma Alta in the area now known as Telegraph Hill.   Her husband tried to force her to return home and legal officials ordered him to stay away, which he didn't. Briones appealed to courts repeatedly with suit against her husband for physical abuse after repeated episodes of violence and in return a justice of the peace seized some of his property. Juana navigated the male-leaning legal system, hiring people to write on her behalf. This was no small step in the patriarchal, hierarchical world of 19th century colonial California. Juana was free and Apolinario Miranda later died.   She found the booming city too frantic, and bought a 4,000-acre ranch in Santa Clara Valley from her friends José Gorgonio and his son José Ramon in 1844. She named it Rancho La Purisima Concepción and successfully expanded her cattle and farming interests. The Briones family ranch was a home, social hall, and hospital all rolled into one. Briones' status as a female landowner was unusual in an era where women generally could only possess land they inherited from a deceased husband. Yet she was an independent woman who was prospering on her own. Her children also prospered.  In 1848, Mexico ceded this land to the U.S. under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill. Almost overnight, the sleepy little mission became a busy city, filled with all manner of men who came to get rich overnight and ‘ladies of the night' who hoped to liberate the men from their gold dust. Juana wasn't bothered by the U.S. coup at all, in fact, when her Anglo friends suggested she become an American citizen, she did.  Across the nation, Boston traders sought out her “California banknotes,” as they called her cowhides. She entertained lavishly, with European and American guests attending her fiestas. “Anglo, Hispanics, and Native Americans came for bear fights, calf roping, and pig roasts. Sick people also came to recuperate under Juana's watchful gaze.”   When the U.S. made California a state in 1850, all Mexican landholders were put through many hurdles with proving they had title to their property. The original landowners were required to certify their land ownership before the U.S. Land Commission. The legal process was too difficult or expensive for many people, especially the women and racial minorities who had owned land under Mexican law. Many were cheated out of their land. In 1852, the U.S. Government informed Juana it intended to seize her land that had originally been granted in her husband's name. Apolinario Miranda was dead by then, and the government said she had no legal right to the property.    She fought for 12 years to retain the title to her lands in both San Francisco and Santa Clara counties and many of the Anglos she'd helped over the years came to assist her in the fight for her rights. The battle went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. She won ownership of her ranch and the property in Yerba Buena. Juana left portions of her rancho La Purisima Concepción to her children, who bore their father's name, Miranda and sold the rest to members of the Murphy family, who came to California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party.    Briones purchased other tracts of land and eventually settled the town of Mayfield. Briones' was one of the founding members of today's Palo Alto. She built a home there in 1884 and remained in Mayfield for the remainder of her lifetime. Juana Briones died in a cow stampede in 1889 at the age of 87.    In 2010, her house at 4155 Old Adobe Road in Palo Alto was listed as one of the 11 most endangered historic places in the country by The National Trust for Historic Preservation. Despite a big fight between the owners and educators, historians, architects, neighbors, and business and community leaders, a demolition crew arrived a year later to dismantle her modest home. The property was sold the following summer for $2.9 million.   Doña Juana Briones de Miranda is remembered as the "Founding Mother of San Francisco” and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Menlo Park, California. She lived here under three flags and helped found the eighth-largest city in the United States. During her lifetime, Juana was known and loved by many people because of her energy, her business sense and her concern for others. Even so, today she is still relatively unknown, but more people deserve to know about her. In San Francisco, she is commemorated at the northeast corner of Washington Square near her once her dairy farm. A historical plaque is on a bench at the bottom of The Lyon Street steps. In Palo Alto, her memory is preserved by the Juana Briones Elementary School, Juana Briones Park, and several street names incorporating either Miranda or first names of her children.    Queens of the Mines is brought to you by Youreka Productions. Andrea Anderson researched, wrote and produced this series.    

Episode 1 of a new podcast amplifying indigenous voices and providing context for contemporary events in California. This episode discusses the El Camino Real bells & Mission bells, their impact and legacy, and the movement for their removal. 30 minutes.Please leave your feedback, suggestions, reviews, and include ideas for future episodes. Please share and promote the podcast in your networks.For more information: https://removethebells.org/Interviews were recorded by Martin Rizzo-Martinez & Alexii SigonaAudio engineering and editing by Daniel StonebloomMusic in this episode was created by Bernard Gordillo & Hilson ParkerThe title of today's episode comes from the work of Grzegorz Welizarowicz, who uses the term “instruments of colonization” in his piece "California Mission Bells: Listening Against the 'Fantasy Heritage'" published in 2016 in Beyond Philology https://fil.ug.edu.pl/sites/default/files/nodes/strona-filologiczny/33797/files/beyondphilologyno13.pdf#page=239An article by Renya K. Ramirez & Valentin Lopez called "Valentin Lopez, Healing, and Decolonization: Contesting Mission Bells, El Camino Real, and California Governor Newsom" appears here: https://airc.ucsc.edu/resources/suggested-article-1Ann E. Danis' work "Franciscans, Russians, and Indians on the International Borders of Alta California" (with Kent Lightfoot) can be found here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b678ece45776e847bf9e8c2/t/5bda2fa96d2a73d30db67ec6/1541025714281/Lightfoot+and+Danis+2018++Franciscans%2C+Russians%2C+and+Indians+on+the+International+Border+of+Alta+California+%281%29.pdf

In previous episodes, I've mentioned the importance of Alta California's Yerba Buena Cove to the overall commerce in the District of San Francisco, consisting of the local rancheros, the Mission, and other local inhabitants. This cove was advantageous, for being a year-round, protected spot for mooring, much better than the originally established Presidio of San Francisco. My episodes, so far, have focused on the business benefit of Yerba Buena Cove, because, that's the easiest information to find. But, not the geography of the shoreline and cove, or, the history, prior to the landfill of 1851 - 1853? I wanted to understand how the different occupants of San Francisco related to the same land. Some information is harder to find. Sometimes, that information is under your nose, hiding in plain sight. And, sometimes, it's just under your feet.

1/8/22Here's another Moniker Classic episode to start the New Year. We here at Moniker have been rethinking the format of the show for 2022 and will have updates soon. But don't worry!Lot's of naming fun is coming your way!-MeganToday we're going to mine the depths of the Golden State! Hopefully we'll find some good nuggets! It'll be a real rush! (I know, I hate me too).More to explore on the Latino/a and Mexican American experience of California:Anthology of works by Los Angeles-based Latino/Hispanic writershttps://losangelesliterature.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/latinoa-writers-of-los-angeles-and-southern-california/Books on California history by Latino authorsOccupied America by Rodolfo Acuna https://www.amazon.com/Occupied-America-History-Chicanos-8th/dp/0205880843/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=occupied+america&qid=1624643688&sr=8-1 The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California  by Antonio Maria Osio https://www.amazon.com/History-Alta-California-Memoir-Mexican/dp/0299149749/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=Alta+California&qid=1624643744&sr=8-5 Sources:Websites:www.britannica.com www.census.govhttps://www.loc.gov/collections/california-first-person-narratives/articles-and-essays/early-california-history/Articles:https://medium.com/anne-t-kent-california-room-community-newsletter/the-problem-with-californias-application-for-statehood-e326b81012cchttps://exhibits.stanford.edu/california-as-an-island/feature/history https://amadisofgaul.blogspot.com/2009/07/california-according-to-garci-rodriguez.html The Mythical Straits of Anian. (1915). Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 147.Books:Guinn, J. M., & Beck, J. (2015). A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles. Jazzybee Verlag.Starr, K. (2007). California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) (Reprint ed.). Modern Library.Videos:https://reason.com/video/2021/06/07/is-california-over/Music: Market by PeriTune | http://peritune.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Deep Woods3 by PeriTune | http://peritune.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

This episode is brought to you by the Ladies of the Fright Patreon! When we hit our goal of 30 patrons, we'll begin paying authors $25 for short story reprints! We've got tons of exclusive content for patrons at every tier. Head on over to patreon.com/ladiesofthefright and join our community today! Show Notes For our eighth tropisode, we're talking FORESTS with debut author Katherine Silva. Katherine Silva is a Maine author of dark fiction, a connoisseur of coffee, and victim of cat shenanigans. She is a two-time Maine Literary Award finalist for speculative fiction and a member of the Horror Writers of Maine, The Horror Writers Association, and New England Horror Writers Association. Katherine is also a founder of Strange Wilds Press, Dark Taiga Creative Writing Consultations, and The Kat at Night Blog. Her latest book, The Wild Dark, is now available wherever books are sold. AND as you all know, Lisa Quigley is a horror author and pagan witch. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside's low-residency MFA program in Palm Desert. Her work has appeared in such places as Unnerving Magazine, Journal of Alta California, and Automata Review. She is the co-host of the award-winning horror fiction podcast Ladies of the Fright. Hell's Bells (2020) and Camp Neverland (2021) from Unnerving are her novellas. The Forest is her debut novel. Lisa lives in New Jersey with one handsome devil and two wild monsters. Find her at www.lisaquigley.net. Forest Group Reads The Forest by Lisa Quigley The Wild Dark by Katherine Silva Forest Book and Film Mentions The Wizard of Oz (film and book) The Forest by Lisa Quigley The Wild Dark by Katherine Silva The Ritual by Adam Neville The Night Will Find Us by Matthew Leions Pines by Blake Crouch The Blair Witch Project  The Fiends and the Furrows folk horror anthology Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton The Neverending Story The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes The Bear in the Nightingale by Katherine Arden The Changeling by Victor LaValle Find Katherine: Website

The Rio Grande Guardian International News Service is hosting "To Conquer, To Defend" because this year marks the 175th anniversary of a significant war in North American history.“The U.S.-Mexico War of 1846-48 basically changed the destiny of both countries,” said Salomon Torres, director of event initiatives for the Rio Grande Guardian and co-founder of the conference.“For the U.S. it gained the entire southwest as new territory, to finally solidify the geographical lines that the U.S. wanted for many decades. For Mexico it was tragic in that they lost one-third of their geography, including the northern Mexican provinces of Alta California (present-day California) and New Mexico, which itself later got partitioned into several U.S. states including Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and portions of Wyoming and Colorado.”By the time the war started, the region Mexico called Tejas had been taken from the state of Coahuila-Tejas and turned into a fledging republic.Torres said the disputed border region we now call the Rio Grande Valley played a key part in the U.S.-Mexico War.“War began in May 1846 after a group of General Zachary Taylor's troops were killed or taken prisoner by the Mexican cavalry at a site on Military Highway south of La Feria – about three miles from the house I grew up in,” Torres explained. “A cannon facing south on Military Highway now commemorates that incident.”In the attached podcast I interview Torres about the conference.The "To Conquer, To Defend" conference takes place Thursday, Dec. 9 at the Port Isabel Event & Cultural Center. The conference can be attended either in-person or virtually. To learn more about the conference and how to purchase tickets, click here.

As Americans moved into California, the U.S. government wanted to provide them with an official representative. But the government also wanted California for the United States. So when Thomas Larkin was appointed as consul to Monterey, Alta California, he had the job of keeping the peace with Mexico---while other Americans tried to make war. But Larkin also wanted to bring California into the United States. He became a consul who literally worked himself out of a job, when California became part of the United States in 1847.Show notes, including a full transcript, available at consolationprize.rrchnm.org.

You might know Gustavo as the Winemaker at Scribe here in Sonoma Valley. Did you know that he and his wife Jackie their own wines under the Orixe Sotelo label? Focusing on Spanish varieties grown here in California. Or as they say it “singular wines from Alta California”. This is Read more... The post The Wine Makers – Gustavo Sotelo, Orixe Sotelo appeared first on Radio Misfits.

There are only a few foreigners who lived in Yerba Buena, Alta California, long enough to see the province go from Spanish, to Mexican, to American rule. A person who lived through all that, would have a unique perspective of early Yerba Buena, and California history. William Heath Davis, is the most famous Yerba Buena/San Francisco resident, you've never heard of.

Today we're going to mine the depths of the Golden State! Hopefully we'll find some good nuggets! It'll be a real rush! (I know, I hate me too). More to explore on the Latino/a and Mexican American experience of California:Anthology of works by Los Angeles-based Latino/Hispanic writershttps://losangelesliterature.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/latinoa-writers-of-los-angeles-and-southern-california/ Books on California history by Latino authorsOccupied America by Rodolfo Acuna  https://www.amazon.com/Occupied-America-History-Chicanos-8th/dp/0205880843/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=occupied+america&qid=1624643688&sr=8-1  The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California  by Antonio Maria Osio  https://www.amazon.com/History-Alta-California-Memoir-Mexican/dp/0299149749/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=Alta+California&qid=1624643744&sr=8-5  Sources:Websites:www.britannica.com  www.census.gov https://www.loc.gov/collections/california-first-person-narratives/articles-and-essays/early-california-history/Articles:https://medium.com/anne-t-kent-california-room-community-newsletter/the-problem-with-californias-application-for-statehood-e326b81012cchttps://exhibits.stanford.edu/california-as-an-island/feature/history https://amadisofgaul.blogspot.com/2009/07/california-according-to-garci-rodriguez.html The Mythical Straits of Anian. (1915). Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 147. Books:Guinn, J. M., & Beck, J. (2015). A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles. Jazzybee Verlag.Starr, K. (2007). California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) (Reprint ed.). Modern Library.Videos:https://reason.com/video/2021/06/07/is-california-over/ Music: Market by PeriTune | http://peritune.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Deep Woods3 by PeriTune | http://peritune.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

On episode 45, Julie & Art visit Santa Barbara California and journey through some of the city's lesser popular attractions.  We call this episode, Santa Barbara, Off The Beaten Path.    Santa Barbara, California The city of Santa Barbara lies about 100 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. A drive up highway 101, will take you past magnificent ocean views. As you leave the urban landscape of Southern California, you'll find yourself in a coastal oasis, that is referred to as The American Riviera. Located between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the city is a popular tourist and resort destination.  You can spend days exploring the history and culture found within the city's boundaries. Five Stops On The Beaten Path Listen in as we share our own personal stories of some of Santa Barbara's supplemental attractions. On this episode, we take you on a trip through six places that are somewhat off the beaten path. If you are a first time visitor to Santa Barbara, plan to do at least one of these items, though you can even squeeze in several on a weekend visit. Santa Barbara Cemetery: Located on a beautiful setting overlooking the Pacific Ocean, several notable actors, actresses, musicians and otherwise historic figures are buried at this location. Inspiration Point Hiking Trail: This hike takes about 1.5 hours and offers panoramic views about 1,800 feet above the city of Santa Barbara.  Enjoy hiking through the oaks and sycamores at lower elevations, and the views at the top are, well, inspirational.  You can also visit Seven Falls from the same starting point of this hike. Santa Barbara Botanic Garden: This 78-acre botanical garden is home to over 1,000 species of rare and indigenous plants El Presidio de Santa Barbara: This historic Park preserves the site of the last of four military outposts built by the Spanish along the coast of Alta California. Santa Barbara Historical Museum: This museum features relics from Chumash, Spanish, Mexican, Yankee, and Chinese cultures, including artifacts, photographs, furnishings and textiles, dating as far back as the 15th century. Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Founded in 1941, it is home to both permanent and special collections, the former of which includes Asian, American, and European art that spans 4,000 years from ancient to modern.  More Adventures In Santa Barbara Be sure to listen to our prior episode which highlighted five of the most popular attraction in Santa Barbara - an episode we call Santa Barbara On The Beaten Path. The Places Where We Go Podcast: The Places Where We Go Podcast is released every other week in your favorite podcast app along as well as on our website at www.theplaceswherewego.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theplaceswherewego Twitter: https://twitter.com/theplaceswhere1 Email: Write to us at comments@theplaceswherewego.com We'll see you at the places where we go. Julie & Art    

In today's episode, we explore the first few major battles in the Mexican American War in the Alta California theater. Our Patreon Page: www.patreon.com/historyofcalifornia Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/history_of_ca_podcast If you'd like to subscribe to the new weekly newsletter, please follow this link: eepurl.com/haiCNX Support our podcast by buying some historical swag: teespring.com/history-of-california-podcast?pid=46 Also, support our podcast by purchasing a sophisticated coffee mug or a fashionable tote bag, perfect for lugging around heavy history books: teespring.com/new-history-of-cal…ornia-podc?pid=658

In this episode, we meet Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of Alta California. Our Patreon Page: www.patreon.com/historyofcalifornia Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/history_of_ca_podcast If you'd like to subscribe to the new weekly newsletter, please follow this link: eepurl.com/haiCNX Support our podcast by buying some historical swag: teespring.com/history-of-california-podcast?pid=46 Also, support our podcast by purchasing a sophisticated coffee mug or a fashionable tote bag, perfect for lugging around heavy history books: teespring.com/new-history-of-cal…ornia-podc?pid=658

In this episode, I interview Nick Neely whose bestselling 2019 book Alta California chronicled his journey to recreate the Portola expedition, that we covered on a previous episode, starting in San Diego and making his on foot to San Francisco. It was a great conversation and I know you will enjoy it. Nick's book recommendations: Where I Was From by Joan Didion: https://amzn.to/3iuQ7q9 All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner: https://amzn.to/3l9Xs0o Nick's Website: http://www.nickneely.com/ Amazon Link for Nick's work: https://amzn.to/3d0DJxi Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/historyofcalifornia If you'd like to subscribe to the new weekly newsletter, please follow this link: eepurl.com/haiCNX

In this episode, we explore US history in regards to treaties and set the stage for the explorers, settlers, and trappers that will migrate into Alta California. Our Patreon Page: www.patreon.com/historyofcalifornia Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/history_of_ca_podcast If you'd like to subscribe to the new weekly newsletter, please follow this link: eepurl.com/haiCNX Support our podcast by buying some historical swag: teespring.com/history-of-california-podcast?pid=46 Also, support our podcast by purchasing a sophisticated coffee mug or a fashionable tote bag, perfect for lugging around heavy history books: teespring.com/new-history-of-cal…ornia-podc?pid=658 Thank you to all of our listeners and supporters!

Enjoy this brief summary of the political structure of the first “unification” of California. Take careful notes! Because we'll be exploring (pun intended) a lot of themes, names, and history mentioned in this episode. Everything from the public domain: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_california --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, I speak with Greg Bernal-Mendoza Smestad, a direct descendant of the families who settled Alta California over 200 years ago.  Greg talks to us about their journey, the character of those people who risked their lives to come to come north, and the legacy they passed on. When Spanish explorers came to Alta California in 1769, […] The post Podcast Episode 002 — “You Have to Carry This On”: What it Means to Be a Californio appeared first on The California Frontier Project.