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When the Mission Bells Rang

January 22, 2023February 4, 2023 slvpost.com0 comment

By Julie Horner A new book is available at the San Lorenzo Valley Museum: “When the Mission Bells Rang” by Dr. Judith Scott, illustrated by Lydia Gibson and in consultation with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. Written for children as a teaching aid and intended for all ages to think about and talk about, the book tells a tale of… Read More

Jo Gliddon Communicating with the Universe and Finding Your Soulmate

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Zayante Author Offers Tasty Relationship Tips

December 5, 2022December 5, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

May I Take Your Order, Please: Communicating with the Universe and Finding Your Soulmate By Julie Horner Jo Gliddon knows her way around the online dating buffet. In her new book May I Take Your Order, Please: Communicating with the Universe and Finding Your Soulmate, Gliddon shares through personal experience — and with a generous dollop of humor — her… Read More

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The Founding of Alba School, The Little Red Schoolhouse of Ben Lomond

October 20, 2022October 29, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

By Lucia MacLean Around 2005 or so, I was given a set of keys to Alba School and declared its docent by a prominent member of the Alba School Community. It was with the idea that I would go through the archives to learn about the history of the school. Slowly, I proceeded through them. Shortly thereafter, I began giving… Read More

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Boulder Creek Community: A United Voice

September 13, 2022September 28, 2022 slvpost.com1 Comment

By Taylor Kimble As the world struggled with COVID-19 and its various complications, the Santa Cruz Mountains faced yet another life-threatening obstacle in August 2020: the CZU Lightning Complex Fire. The fire forced mountain residents to evacuate their homes and scatter to all corners of the country. In the wake of displacement, fear, and uncertainty, Jo Romaniello, a marriage and… Read More

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Albert’s Ashes: A Peacock’s Tail

August 31, 2022November 26, 2024 slvpost.comLocal News0 comment

Local Children’s Book Teaches Resilience By Julie Horner Jackie Hendricks remembers leaving early in the afternoon of August 18, 2020 when it started raining ash. “The news said the wind will blow it away,” so Hendricks went to her mother’s with only an overnight bag thinking it was going to be over soon. An English teacher at Santa Clara University… Read More

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On the Cruz: Poems of Santa Cruz

August 30, 2022October 14, 2026 Julie Hornerpoems, Poetry, ron lampi

Felton Author Ron Lampi Releases Second Edition By Julie Horner Visionary poet-philosopher, astrologer, inspirational speaker, and White Raven coffee shop regular Ron Lampi celebrates the release this summer of On the Cruz: Poems of Santa Cruz, Second Edition. The volume is filled with stories and observations from the skyline to the sea filtered through the eye of someone passionately in… Read More

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Local Musician and Artist Bluzar Blue Releases Retrospective

June 15, 2022June 30, 2022 slvpost.com1 Comment

By Julie Horner Longtime Santa Cruz Mountains local Bluzar Blue has released a compilation of songs, illustrations, quips, and observations in a book entitled “Bluzar Blue, In Black and White and In Color.” The book showcases 75 colored plates of his favorite artistic creations, finished and unfinished, since 1969. “I was having a hard time getting my artwork into galleries,”… Read More

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Following the Old Ways: Local Storyteller K.M. Rice Defies Convention

March 10, 2022April 6, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

By Julie Horner Kellie “K.M.” Rice grew up with books. “I was really fortunate that my parents read to me every night. It was this magical experience snuggled up next to my mom or dad and seeing the pictures and hearing the words, and it transported me somewhere else.” Rice wrote her first story as soon as she could put… Read More

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Island Dreams: A Solo Journey

January 1, 2022January 19, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

Pamela Morgan’s Memoir of Self Discovery By Julie Horner “Once seated in the prop-plane, I realized the wing propellers were my only view outside the window,” writes Pamela Morgan in her new memoir/travelog, Island Dreams: A Solo Journey. “It was a smooth takeoff and a not-too-nerve-racking 15-minute flight, but then I noticed the landing strip below was gravel and grass.… Read More

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Davenport — A Land Set Apart

December 25, 2021December 31, 2021 slvpost.com0 comment

Alverda Orlando’s History of Davenport, California By Julie Horner Retired teacher and librarian Alverda Orlando started working on the idea of a book about Davenport when she was in college. Facing a two-unit deficit from graduating and not wanting to have to do too much studying, she said, she took an easy summer course where the professor asked students to… Read More