San Diego’s transformation from frontier outpost to vital port was a checkered one. This spring, the History Press welcomes back author Rick Crawford for another round of San Diego history… San Diego today is a vibrant and bustling coastal city, but it wasn’t always so. The city’s transformation from a rough-hewn border town and frontier […]
December 27, 2012
The History Press is delighted to announce a new book from historian Cheryl Anne Stapp, author of Disaster & Triumph: Sacramento Women, Gold Rush Through The Civil War. Look for Sacramento Chronicles: A Golden Past in stores this February 2013. Sacramento boomed when forty-niners flocked to California, but the road from riverfront trading post to […]
April 13, 2012
Enjoying the charms of Lake Oswego, Oregon, this weekend? Saturday, April 14, from 2 to 6 pm, Matthew’s Galleries will host a book signing event for Marylou Colver’s recently published Lake Oswego Vignettes. More about the book after the jump. “Illiterate cows, an electric pig and world-class water skiers. They’re all part of Lake Oswego’s […]
March 8, 2012
Marylou Colver is the founder and president of the Lake Oswego Preservation Society in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The following is an interview that describes her interest in preserving and honoring the city’s past through her new book: Lake Oswego Vignettes: Illiterate Cows to College-Educated Cabbage. AK: Lake Oswego Vignettes is full of fun and quirky […]
October 19, 2011
AK: What was the strangest or quirkiest story you uncovered while researching your “The Way We Were” column for the San Diego Union-Tribune? RC: The story of celebrity evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson’s mysterious disappearance in May 1926 has a strange San Diego connection. McPherson reappeared a few weeks later and claimed she had been kidnapped. […]
May 2, 2013
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