Laguna Beach of Early Days
Laguna Beach of Early Days

Author: J.S. Thurston

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017-08-07

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1439662134

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The family of Laguna Beach founding father Joseph S. Thurston claimed a shack in Aliso Canyon in 1871, when he was just three years old. Thurston's personal account of growing up in Laguna presents an intimate look at the settler's hardships, relationships and perseverance. Recalling these struggles, he paints a graphic picture of early citizens and their contributions to the growth and development of this community. Originally published in 1947, this historical narrative serves as a marvelous, unique glimpse of a bygone era. Thurston's grandson, Kelly H. Boyd, offers this revised edition for a new generation.

Southern California Off the Beaten Path®
Southern California Off the Beaten Path®

Author: Kathy Strong

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0762774789

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Southern California Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Southern California Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Southern California that other guidebooks just don't offer.

Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach

Author: Claire Marie Vogel

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780738569970

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As one of the West Coast's most unique and beautiful resort cities, Laguna Beach has thrived as an enduring enclave of art culture, a destination of hidden beaches, and a coastline rich in natural wonders, which its officials and residents strive to maintain. Settlers arrived in the 1870s, and by the summer of 1918 Laguna's first art gallery opened, featuring works by a growing collective of local artists. Hundreds of visitors came on opening day and, in the next month, 2,000 more visited the small art gallery. In 1932, Laguna started what would become a world-renowned event called the Festival of the Arts and later added the equally famous Pageant of the Masters. Since its simple beginnings as a small village situated where Laguna Canyon opens onto the Pacific shoreline to the reason there are traffic jams on Coast Highway during hot-month weekends, this southern Orange County jewel has continued to be a great draw for beachgoers, painters, and nature lovers the world over.

Laguna Beach and the Greenbelt
Laguna Beach and the Greenbelt

Author: Committee for Preservation of the Laguna Legacy.

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2017-02-03

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1532015089

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This book celebrates Laguna Beach and its greenbelt, which have been designated a historic American landscape by the National Park Service, Department of Interior, and presents the nomination documentation that is housed in the Library of Congress. It is dedicated to the generations of devoted people responsible for shaping the citys character and traditions. Lagunas mountains and dramatic canyons, coastal cliffs, and ever-changing ocean views attracted plein air artists and others beginning early in the last century, and from the beginning, its residents were dedicated to protecting and embellishing it. The fortunate confluence of geography, history, and community resolve has resulted in the preservation, in the face of the surrounding suburban sprawl, of an authentic small town and a vast area of protected open space that provides breathing room for all of us.

Pennsylvania Impressionism
Pennsylvania Impressionism

Author: William H. Gerdts

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2002-10-25

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0812237005

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"This magnificent new book . . . has assembled a definitive collection of impressionistic works from the Bucks Country region of eastern Pennsylvania. . . . Excellent!"—Bloomsbury Review

Orange County Pioneers
Orange County Pioneers

Author: Charles Epting

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014-11-18

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1625852878

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Orange County's pioneer history is filled with harrowing tales every bit as entertaining as a western novel. These stories, culled from oral histories recorded by old-timers in the 1930s as part of the Works Progress Administration, offer a rarely seen look into Orange County's frontier days. From bear hunts and bullfights to social gatherings at the home of the most famous Shakespearean actress of the day, these tales are a window into the earliest days of every corner of the county. Join editor Charles Epting for these wonderfully evocative portraits of the past recounted in the words of the eyewitnesses.

Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach

Author: Foster J. Eubank

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0738599603

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Everyone loves Laguna Beach; at least authors Foster J. Eubank and Gene Felder do, as well as everyone they know. It has long been an art colony, as indicated by city signs that read "Home of the Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters." The city's 23,000 residents work to protect its small-town atmosphere. Laguna Beach is now surrounded by 22,000 acres of protected natural open space that was originally part of Mexican land grants. In this volume, the authors show that much has changed, while much remains the same.