Cabin Boy on the Mayflower II My good friend Art Cobery recently told me the story of his cousin Joe Meany who signed on as cabin boy on a Mayflower replica back in 1957. It’s not a local history story per se, but it’s a good story for the Thanksgiving holiday. And it was featured […]
Biden’s Build Back Better Plan Will Cut Costs and Help Families Twelve months ago, we were lunging toward a third wave in the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals were overwhelmed as families said goodbye over the phone to their loved ones. Parents – especially mothers – were working nonstop to juggle their children’s distance learning with their […]
Max Rafferty, Conservative Firebrand, Made His Name In La Cañada History constantly repeats itself. Recently we’ve seen in the news a resurgence of the Republican Party linked to the teaching of America’s children in public schools. The same was true in the 1960s. Mary Lou Langdyke of La Cañada’s Lanterman House recently wrote an article […]
Disagrees with Definition While I have often been a fan of Mike Lawler’s articles on the history of the Crescenta Valley, I feel compelled to address a few mischaracterizations he makes in the recent CVW article regarding his new book (Treasures of the Valley, Nov. 4). Specifically, Mike writes that the “La Cañada Gossip” section […]
November is a busy month. Everyone is looking forward to celebrating Thanksgiving and having a little family time. The Crescenta Valley Town Council annual elections are on Friday, Dec. 10 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Sadler Hall at St. Luke’s of the Mountains […]
American Legion Hall Beginnings Today is Veterans Day when we honor those who have served in the U.S. military. Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day and was created in 1919 as a remembrance of the end of WWI. That same year the American Legion was created by American veterans of “The Great War.” As […]
Thoughts on Earthquake Preparedness I read with interest Mary O’Keefe’s article about earthquake insurance (“Insuring Against the Great Shake Out,” Oct. 28). I am a huge advocate of earthquake preparedness. Along with earthquake insurance, every household should be prepared to not expect help from the government and FEMA for at least 72 hours or longer. […]
Color My World I have had enough. After 20 months of infectious disease, strict lockdowns and countless regulations, I can hardly breathe, mask or not. Everywhere we go and everything we do, it’s the only topic being discussed and it hurts to live it every day. There is literally no escape from the madness that […]
New Book – ‘Crescenta Valley’s Dirty Laundry: Gossip, Crime and Tragedy’ Gary Keyes and I have produced yet another local history book guaranteed to lower your property values. In the past, Gary and I have written two other books on our local “bad history:” “Wicked Crescenta Valley” detailed various crimes and cons, and the chilling […]
Is Ralphs Market Haunted? I’ve been hearing ghost stories from former employees of Ralphs Supermarket in La Crescenta. The stories are always from former employees as there seems to be a hesitancy by current employees to talk, worried perhaps by blowback from corporate. With that in mind, I’ll keep the stories anonymous. A little background […]