Download or read book The Curse of Santa Cruz written by Stephanie Michel and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curse of Santa Cruz was inspired by the true story of the annihilation of the Ohlone Indian Nation and the legendary curse that was bestowed upon what many would consider one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world. Throughout the ages, things happened in Santa Cruz that were unexplainable and downright absurd. With the entire city basically built on Indian burial grounds, one thing after another happened in the famous city by the sea, that quite frankly, no one could explain. Alfred Hitchcock was on to it when he lived and wrote two of his most famous works, "The Birds" and "Psycho" while residing there. There were so many murders in the 70s, the district attorney made a public announcement calling Santa Cruz, "Murder Capital of The World," leaving it riddled with harrowing anticipation and a blanket of black fog that can only be described as unimaginable. How do you tell an entire civilization that you are sorry for the wrongful and massive slaying of their people? How can one express the remorse, sadness, and the regrets that one finally feels after generations of intentional torture, thievery and destruction to one another? How can one ever repay a debt so deep? Whose fault is it and where do we start? A high school history class explores these questions, and after a semester of painful trial and errors, they find the answers within themselves and discover the path to the truth.
Download or read book The Curse of Santa Cruz written by Stephanie Michel and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Curse of Santa Cruz explains that decade of carnage, along with the horrific true and historical events including the demise of the local China Town, Mafia takeover, and even the Ranchero's of the area, all stemmed from an old Indian legend of a curse and the occurrences that lead to the annihilation of the Ohlone Indian Nation. When ex local news reporter Rowanda, now an aging high school teacher, recounts the history of Santa Cruz in a pilot class, she finally got up the nerve to test on her hard to impress students and her past comes back to haunt her" -- http://www.amazon.com/Curse-Santa-Cruz-Stephanie-Michel/dp/0615794564/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429025102&sr=8-1&keywords=9780615794563
Download or read book Haunted Santa Cruz California written by Maryanne Porter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From inspiring Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho to being the stalking ground of serial killers, Surf City, USA, has a spooky history with a West Coast twist. Though generally a peaceful coastal city, the dark stains from Santa Cruz’s past still linger. A former Spanish Mission, Holy Cross Catholic Church harbors a dark history of a brutal revolt of native Ohlone people that killed the cruel Fr. Andres Quintana. Frequented by mobsters and celebrities in its heyday, the famous Brookdale Lodge’s most talked-about guest is the ghost of a little girl who died nearby in 1892 after nearly drowning. Terrorized by three different serial killers during the 1970s, the city earned the nickname of “the Murder Capital of the World.” Local resident Alfred Hitchcock derived inspiration for his iconic film Psycho from the haunted mid-nineteenth-century Hotel McCray. Tracing the city’s eeriest incidents back to their roots, historical researcher and paranormal investigator Maryanne Porter details these and many more stories of local legend and lore. Includes photos! “[Porter] vividly retells the darker aspects of Santa Cruz history, and shares recorded experiences, including some of her own, at popular local haunted sites like the Brookdale Lodge and Sunshine Villa.” —GoodTimes
Download or read book Ghost Towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains written by John V. Young and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating human and cultural history of the Santa Cruz Mountains from 1850 to the middle of the 20th century. The lives of the early settlers and their descendants; a narrow-gauge railroad from Los Gatos to Santa Cruz in existence from 1880 to 1940; mining, logging, and grizzly bears. Tales of Patchen, Burrell, Austrian Gulch and Germantown, White Wash Alley, Lexington, Alma, Glenwood, New Almaden, and more.
Download or read book Los Leprechauns De Santa Cruz written by Carmen de la Luz Luna and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leprechauns settle in Santa Cruz, New Mexico, a vortex of magical energy, where they live and thrive for centuries. They have a need for help one day and seek out the local curandera. They have other friends in northern New Mexico. The locals have their own legends about the tiny magical people that the Native Americans call kachinas. Together, they rid Santa Cruz of pendejos. With a little luck, the clan MacTavish could make it rain goldmagic gold!
Download or read book The Curse of the Squirrel written by Laurence Yep and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time a giant squirrel curses Farmer Johnson's best hunting dog, things are never the same around the farm. Stepping Stone.
Download or read book Home Team written by Robert F. Garratt and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and mines. But San Francisco already had a team, the Seals of the Pacific Coast League, and West Coast fans had to learn to embrace the newcomers. Starting with the franchise’s earliest days and following the team up to recent World Series glory, Home Team chronicles the story of the Giants and their often topsy-turvy relationship with the city of San Francisco. Robert F. Garratt shines light on those who worked behind the scenes in the story of West Coast baseball: the politicians, businessmen, and owners who were instrumental in the club’s history. Home Team presents Stoneham, often left in the shadow of Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley, as a true baseball pioneer in his willingness to sign black and Latino players and his recruitment of the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues, making the Giants one of the most integrated teams in baseball in the early 1960s. Garratt also records the turbulent times, poor results, declining attendance, two near-moves away from California, and the role of post-Stoneham owners Bob Lurie and Peter Magowan in the Giants’ eventual reemergence as a baseball powerhouse. Garratt’s superb history of this great ball club makes the Giants’ story one of the most compelling of all Major League franchises.
Download or read book Lifting the Curse of Menstruation written by Sharon Golub and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an up-to-date view of menstruation from a feminist perspective. Despite the fact that the menstrual cycle is an integral part of women's lives, menstruation is often viewed as an illness or problem. Lifting the Curse of Menstruation answers essential questions about the occurence of menstruation--from menarch to menopause--and its effects on women's lives. Experts examine the relationship of menstruation to cognitive competence and psychophysiological response, premenstrual syndrome, toxic shock syndrome, dysmenorrhea, and the relationship between psychopathology and the menstrual cycle. The contributors also discuss how menstrual cycle research has been tainted by sexism and assumptions of biological determinism, offering insightful suggestions on how future research can become more sophisticated, reliable, and valid. Lifting the Curse of Menstruation shatters myths and misconceptions, providing an enormous body of knowledge about the menstrual cycle that will help women to better understand their bodies and enable health care professinals to provide better informed, higher quality care.
Download or read book Ghost Towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains written by John V. Young and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Santa Cruz County California written by Edward Sanford Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statistical Yearbook written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Santa Cruz Ghost Directory written by Aubrey Graves and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa Cruz definitely has it's share of hauntings, legends, and ghost stories, and this book covers just that. From the author of "Supernatural Santa Cruz," 2011, she brings to you the ultimate, updated guide covering over 70 of the top most haunted sites within Santa Cruz County.
Download or read book Unsafe Motherhood written by Nicole S. Berry and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[S]heds light not only on the obstacles to making motherhood safer, but to improving the health of poor populations in general.”—Social Anthropology Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. The author examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregnancy, birth and birth-related death among the biomedical personnel, village women, their families, and midwives. These incongruous perspectives, in conjunction with the implementation of such policies, threaten to disenfranchise clients from their own cultural understandings of self. The author investigates how these policies need to meld with the everyday lives of these women, and how the failure to do so will lead to a failure to decrease maternal deaths globally. From the Introduction: An unspoken effect of reducing maternal mortality to a medical problem is that life and death become the only outcomes by which pregnancy and birth are understood. The specter of death looms large and limits our full exploration of either our attempts to curb maternal mortality, or the phenomenon itself. Certainly women’s survival during childbirth is the ultimate measure of success of our efforts. Yet using pregnancy outcomes and biomedical attendance at birth as the primary feedback on global efforts to make pregnancy safer is misguided.
Download or read book Neil and Me written by Scott Young and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT YOUNG chronicles his son’s early years in and around Toronto and Winnipeg and his rise from journeyman, musician to superstar in the 1960s and 1970s. The frequent occasions when Scott and Neil’s paths have crossed – from backstage meetings and family get-togethers to a sold-out appearance at Carnegie Hall – give a fascinating portrait of an enigmatic star.
Download or read book The Ifs of History written by Joseph Edgar Chamberlin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winds of Santa Ana written by Rick Kennedy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winds of Santa Ana is a spiritual history, environmental study, and sailing memoir of Southern California's coast, islands, and waters.
Download or read book Transactions written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
