South Bay history: Present-day Carson was once known as Keystone dailybreeze.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailybreeze.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A new book on the history of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego hits bookstore shelves and online sites June 7. Images of America: Scripps Institution of Oceanography joins many others in this popular photobook series that highlights
‘Southwick Revisited’ historical photo book celebrates town’s 250th anniversary MassLive.com 2 hrs ago Cynthia G. Simison, masslive.com
It was the contents of an old gym bag he found as a teenager in the attic of his family homestead that began Lee David Hamberg’s journey through time with the history of Southwick. The bag contained a treasure trove of family photographs. It prompted Hamberg to sit with his mother and great-aunt back in the 1970s to learn who the people in the photos were and when the pictures had been taken.
Their history thus documented, those “people” in the photos became “individuals” for Hamberg as he went about tracing his family’s roots in the small town that borders Connecticut with its famous “jog” across the state line.
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Historian’s talk, book highlight local region’s Black pioneers
Jan Batiste Adkins
Capitalized, the phrase “Black Lives Matter” is a political statement. Lower case, “Black lives matter” is a passion, especially to local historian, lecturer and author Jan Batiste Adkins.
Adkins discussed her research in a webinar titled “The History of African Americans in Santa Clara County, 1780 to Present,” hosted by the Los Altos History Museum Feb. 24.
The virtual event coincided with Black History Month. According to the history museum’s collections strategist Dianne Shen, the webinar “supports a new initiative to document the history of race, immigration and civil rights of the local region.” Santa Clara County is one of the most multicultural and multiracial regions in the U.S.