If you happened to be looking out across Monterey Bay over Labor Day weekend you might have noticed that the coastline looked weirdly distorted. It was as if someone had...
At the end of Rincon Street in Santa Cruz, California, is a small park which today looks mostly like a landscaped median strip. But in the late 1880s, neighborhood proper...
What do Thomas the Tank Engine, the Industrial Revolution, and little picky eaters all have in common? They owe their success to trains. The Rise of the Railroad Clackety...
The two tree types you mostly see along West Cliff Drive are the Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) and the Monterey pine (Pinus radiata). Both are often seen togeth...
The 7.44 million people of the San Francisco Bay Area live surrounded by several large faults within the active San Andreas Fault System. Most of us who live here are ver...
Near the main entrance to the University of California, Santa Cruz lies the Cowell Lime Works Historic District. We recently wrote about about the regions lime history an...
The eruption of Mount St. Helens forever holds a place in the memories of many people across the nation. On May 18, 1980, Washington’s great mountain received a geologica...
This retaining wall and stairs are one of the distinctive features of Walnut Avenue. The Pratchner family lived at the top of these stairs and George Pratchner built the...
Does form always follow function? Not if the British have anything to say about it. Broadway Tower is a folly located on a hill in Worcestershire, England, where beacons...
Before it was subdivided in the 1940s, the broad street now known as “Chrystal Terrace” was just narrow “Christal Lane” running from Mission Street to a farm house surrou...
