Tag: California History

Catherine Coffin Phillips preserved California history

Catherine Coffin Phillips preserved California history

| July 1, 2021 | 0 Comments

In the January 2021 issue of the Larchmont Chronicle, columnist Paula Panich introduced readers to Steve Inskeep’s book “Imperfect Union,” about Jessie and John Frémont, a powerhouse couple in California development in the last decades of the 19th century. A small insert in the article noted an earlier biography of the female half of the […]

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What’s changed in Southern California since the last century? Everything.

What’s changed in Southern California since the last century? Everything.

| March 1, 2018 | 0 Comments

Look deeply into this landscape image. You might well think it is a dreamscape of Eden, or, perhaps, a fantasia of Devon. The original was painted by an English watercolor landscape painter and illustrator, Sutton Palmer (1854-1933). The painting is Palmer’s painting of the verdant, gentle landscape of Glendale, California, around 1913. It is one […]

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