Your California Legacy segments offer an attractive fit for local independent booksellers, museums, or historical associations looking to publicize events or underwrite strong "local" content.
This week?s five 90 second segments:
Natural history writer Sally Carrighar spent years observing the animals at Sequoia National Park's Beetle Rock. Her 1944 book One Day on Beetle Rock tells the story of nine different animals whose paths intersect--sometimes violently--during a single day.
A graduate of West Point, George Horatio Derby traveled west as part of the Army Topographical Engineers. Distance from his native Massachusetts perhaps encouraged his humorous perspective on American self-importance, a perspective captured in a tongue-in-cheek treatise on astronomy.
After a three-year sojourn in California, North Carolinian Hinton R. Helper published Land of Gold. Hinton?s opinion?drawn, he said, from close observation of the facts at hand?was that California was the poorest state in the union?and also one of the most disreputable.
In the nineteenth century, Joaquin Miller was hailed as one of the most important writers of his time. Despite his success, however, he didn?t forget the underdogs of the world, even among the animal kingdom.
In 1888, the journalist Ernest Thayer penned the classic "Casey at the Bat" for The San Francisco Examiner. With two out in the ninth inning and the tying run already on base, Mighty Casey of the Mudville Nine lets the first two pitches go by as called strikes. With a look, Casey quiets the hometown fans calling for the umpire's head. Hide full description
Your California Legacy segments offer an attractive fit for local independent booksellers, museums, or historical associations looking to publicize events or underwrite strong "local" content.
This week?s five 90 second segments:
Natural history writer Sally Carrighar spent years observing the animals at Sequoia National Park's Beetle Rock. Her 1944 book One Day on Beetle Rock tells the story of nine different animals whose paths intersect--sometimes violently--during a single day.
A graduate of West Point, George Horatio Derby traveled west as part of the Army Topographical Engineers. Distance from his native Massachusetts pe...
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