The news item on Oct. 7, 1902, was brief: “F.C. Mitchell, the contractor, has purchased the Murphy block on Osos street between Pismo and...
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County Librarians Park III
WHATEVER THEIR JOURNEY TO THE SMALL COUNTY IN the middle of California, each of the pioneer librarians (1919-1958) left a legacy of...
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History: County Librarians
SYNONYMOUS WITH THE COUNTY LIBRARY CENTENNIAL is a century of people who served and were served by the parade of material provided in an...
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That we never forget: Highlights from the First Annual Festival for Jewish Learning
Here’s a truly shocking statistic: Fully 30 percent of Millennials—anyone born between 1980 and today—have never heard of the Holocaust....
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James Louis Gillis: Our country’s 'father' of the modern library
In any community retrospect, there are influential figures from the past who left a notable imprint upon the life of future generations only to...
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S.S. Montebello: When War Came to the Central Coast
In last month’s issue, the disastrous Tank Farm Fire captured the destruction and devastation of “the greatest petroleum conflagration in...
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