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Sponsored by the Monterey County Historical Society.
Introduction by Assemblyman Peter C. Frusetta
Hardbound/Dustcover 208 Pages 12 ¼”(h) x 9 ¼”(w)
10,000 Years on the Salinas Plain captures the history of many diverse people who sought and labored to develop the rich soil upon which the City of Salinas was born. The book reveals the history of men and women who overcame droughts, floods, earthquakes, financial hardships, wars, the Great Depression and social unrest in order to build and grow a community into the agricultural giant that it is today.
Hardbound 176 Pages 11 ¼”(h) x 8 ¼”(w)
This book is the second of three books written by Burton Anderson and is an extension/corollary to his previous book, America’s Salad Bowl: An Agricultural History of the Salinas Valley.
Paperback, 128 pages.
Featuring photography from the Pat Hathaway Historical Photo Collection.
Coastal Grower magazine is widely known as the quarterly magazine that most, if not all agricultural growers/shippers and those associated with the industry subscribe. This publication contains all articles written by Burton in co-operation with the Monterey County Historical Society for Coastal Grower magazine between the years of 1989-2015. It is the most comprehensive resource of its kind ever produced about the history of agriculture on the central coast as well as the history of Monterey County. A crowning achievement and an instant heirloom.;
This publication chronicles the roots, epic journey and early settlement experience of Isaac Julian Harvey—the 1st Mayor of the City of Salinas. Historical vignettes within the book include rich descriptions of Salinas in its infancy.
In 1852, protecting California’s waterways became the job p the newly formed Lighthouse Board. Magnificent structures would rise in the decades to follow, built by brave and adventurous souls. Step back in time to an earlier era of both adventure and hardship among the lighthouses of California.
After enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942 and training diligently for months as a bombardier, David Ririe spent only one day in combat. On his first—and last—mission, his pland and was down outside of Rostock, Germany. He was seized and sent to Stalag Luft 1—an isolated POW camp along the Baltic Coast. In One-Mission Man, Ririe speaks with honesty and eloquence about his family, daily life in the camp and the harrowing chaos that followed liberation by the Russians.
Among California Indian groups, the Esselen were one of the least numerous and remain one of the least known. They are often cited as the first California group to become culturally extinct. In spite of many years of work by researchers, the Esselen still remain one of the least known groups in California. Many aspects of Esselen culture have been lost, yet from what we do know they were one of the most fascinating of the California groups. Now, for the first time much of the existing data on the Esselen has been gathered into one place—this publication. The text is illustrated with hundreds of photographs of the Big Sur Country, designed to show the land in which the Esselen people lived for some 6,000 years.