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SPRING 1823: MACALA y ARNEL obtained Monterey adobe tienda; San Luis Obisbo harbor served Misiones San Luis Obispo, San Miguel + La Purisima
+++ Early in 1823, the British firm had obtained a spacious adobe to be used as a ‘tienda.’ In July of the same year, the manager hired Indians to erect an adequate warehouse on the comp… more →
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SPRING 1823: MACALA y ARNEL obtained Monterey adobe tienda; San Luis Obisbo harbor served Misiones San Luis Obispo, San Miguel + La Purisima
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Early in 1823, the British firm had obtained a spacious adobe to be used as a ‘tienda. … more →
PADRE LUIZ MARTINEZ wrote to DON GUILLERMO HARTNELL @ Casa de la Guerra in Santa Barbara, proposing he 'spend a holy week, without the loved one who fills your thoughts'
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Don Guillermo made a supreme effort and started north to meet with Don Antonio, whose patience … more →
Only Padre Martinez knew DON GUILLERMO HARTNELL's 'consuming inner conflict ... could not be dispelled by daily fiestas or aguardiente'
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ People poured into San Diego from private ‘ranchos’ and the nearest missions to vie … more →
Bahia Packet letters written by DON GUILLERMO HARTNELL were sent to his DEAR MOTHER + sisters Hannah + Mary in Backbarrow Lancashire England
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ ’I am sorry that circumstances have not permitted me in conscience to do much more, for u … more →
Sean Newton dominates second group show at Collected Works Gallery with acrylic wash nudes , graphite portraits + watercolour landscapes
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goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Earlier this month I stopped by for a second look at the second group show of artists’ wo … more →
JUNIPERO SERRA, holy, unarmed, made dangerous journey from Baja California to establish first Franciscan church in Alta California at San Diego
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ The saintly Junipero Serra remained a source of inspiration to succeeding padres. The few stil … more →
W. E. P. HARTNELL wrote a report on Pacific coast commercial prospects for Brotherston in Liverpool, while Begg waited for Lord Cochrane's Callao seige + San Martin's army to triumph
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ He even was requested by Mr. Barnard, a partner in the firm, to send a detailed account of comm … more →
DON GUILLERMO HARTNELL found Chilean countryside between liberated Santiago and Valparaiso "beautifully romantic" in 1820
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ … Jonathan Winstanley, the firm’s representative in Valparaiso, port of entry, ofte … more →
W. E. P. HARTNELL found 'Chilean ladies...rather handsome...but too low in stature...men are very illiterate...great rogues'
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ ’Permit me to avail myself of the present favourable opportunity of reiterating to you my … more →
WILLIAM EDWARD PETTY HARTNELL: guide to papers in Bancroft Library Berkeley California
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ A guide to the papers of William Edward Petty Hartnell, now found in four volumes at the Bancro … more →
DON GUILLERMO ARNEL: Dn Guillo. P. Hartnell, en casa de Dn Juan Begg, del Comercio Ingles, Santiago de Chile, Oct. 22, 1819
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ …Many men in… ++ …this fleet, as well as mercenaries in the armies of Simon … more →
DONA MARIA TERESA de la GUERRA y NORIEGA, first daughter of Don Jose de la Guerra + Dona Maria Antonia Carrillo, married W. P. Hartnell
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Dona Maria Teresa de la Guerra y Noriega, a Catholic from one of the old Spanish Californios fa … more →
Santa Barbara Mission priest-historians + Monterey poetess Susan Gregory helped Dakin write her book on Don Guillermo Arnel (William Petty Hartnell)
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ …[Reprinted from the second page (viii) of the Foreward by Susanna Bryant Dakin to her bi … more →
THE LIVES OF WILLIAM HARTNELL, by Susanna Bryant Dakin, Stanford University Press (front dustjacket blurb)
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ HERE is the biography of an Englishman who died a Californian in the year 1854 – a man wh … more →
RCMP over-reaction: 60 police versus 6 treesitters in Langford at anti-Bear Mountain protest camp
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goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ The monopoly daily had a story February 14 of the break-up by up to five dozen RCMP of a tree-s … more →
JUST WAR NO MORE: Dorothy Day, Pierre Maurin + CATHOLIC PACIFISM
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ With the CBC Radio report announcing that the so-called ‘Conservative’ government i … more →
PAPER ADDICTS ANONYMOUS (PAA): New fellowship needed for paper addicts...and I am one
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ All the major Anglophone newspapers in this country are warmongering for unjust American Imperi … more →
Plans for 'Schu-huum' 1322 Rockland historic mansion still concern Rockland Neighbourhood Association
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Development plans for 1322 Rockland Avenue, an important heritage mansion known as ‘Schu- … more →
WILDERNESS COMMITTEE steps up campaign to PROTECT VANCOUVER ISLAND OLD GROWTH FORESTS
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Ken Wu, the office manager at the Victoria office of the Wilderness Committee has been getting … more →
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