By Lisa Robinson Redwoods are somewhat fire resistant and can survive, and in fact heal, after being burned. “Other trees are consumed, but the redwoods battle with the demon and conquer.” In August 1907 the Santa Cruz Sentinel asked: “Stand beside the chimney tree and ask its story. It willRead More →
By Lisa Robinson The chestnut oak, tanoak, or tan-bark oak, is so named because its flower resembles that of the chest-nut and its nut that of an acorn. It is, however, a member of the beech tree family. Its bark is high in tannic acid, and it was extensively harvestedRead More →
Excerpt by Truthful James- by Lisa Robinson – This school year celebrates the sesquicentennial of the Boulder Creek School District, which was formed at the board of supervisors meeting on Monday December 21, 1868. This is a continuation of the story printed in the Santa Cruz Mountain Bulletin October 2018Read More →
by Lisa Robinson * This coming school year celebrates the sesquicentennial of the Boulder School District. A motion to create the school district was on the agenda of the Board of Supervisors on December 26, 1868 and the district was re-affirmed in May 1869. In 1870, because of conflicts inRead More →
by Lisa Robinson It was an exceptionally hot day in July as two teenage friends, Gladys Hawkett and Lillian McDonald of Oakland, enjoyed their summer vacation in Brookdale. They were staying at Tekwah, the Brookdale summer cottage, of Joseph and Emma Sills also of Oakland, on Clear Creek, theRead More →