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Part Two: Banning Mansion to be Featured on ‘Trek to the Past’
When he was only 13 years old, Phineas Banning said goodbye to his parents, nine siblings and his hometown in Delaware. He set out to seek his fortune with only 50 cents in his pocket. His first jo...
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Photo courtesy of Drum Barracks Civil War Museum
‘Trek to the Past’ Will Tour Drum Barracks and Banning Museums
This year marks the sesquicentennial of the 1861 start of America’s Civil War. While most of its action was in the Southeast, California did play a significant role. In fact, 17,000 residents of th...
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Each simple trail can lead the way to the sounds of a chorus of coyotes singing a capella to the appreciative moon. Photo by Doris Walker
Nature Still Surrounds Us in this Urbanized Setting
Sometime in the past century—after the San Diego Freeway had cut through and cultivated southern Orange County with urban crops, but before many of today’s residential communities had sprung up—the...
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Face to Face With a Twisting Funnel Cloud
Doris Walker recalls severe weather in 1950s Ohio News in every direction about the continuing rash of violent storms sweeping across this country brings me to reminisce about my own experience ...
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OC Dana Point Harbor and the surrounding landscape as it appears now, 40 years after the harbor was officially dedicated. Photo by Andrea Swayne
Forty Years of Harboring the Good Life
OC Dana Point Harbor celebrates its 40th anniversary Richard Henry Dana mentioned Dana Point (then Capistrano Bay) as “the most romantic spot on the coast” in his 1835 book Two Years Before ...
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A helicopter loading aboard an Air Force C-17 flight reminded the author that the similarly-shaped, 7,700-pound orca Free Willy film star was flown to freedom from Oregon to Iceland aboard a C-17. Courtesy photo
A Close Touch with Past and Present Wars
Part One: I Become a Military Wife and ‘Go to War’ As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorism attacks approaches, I view it with mixed emotions. I will always remember where I was that d...
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This scenic view of Dana Cove, a photograph taken in the 1880s, was probably unchanged from the scene Richard Henry Dana saw in 1835 when he visited her and called it “the only romantic spot in California.” Courtesy of the Doris Walker collection
Dana’s Impressions of Southern California Ports
Namesake Richard Henry Dana spent 16 months of his two-year sea stint on the Pacific coast. Yet nearly half of his classic book, Two Years Before the Mast , relates to his other eight months at se...
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Bruce Penhall rounds a turn at World Final in 1981 as fans in the stands hold plexiglass shields to deflect the dirt thrown by motorcycle tires. Photo courtesy AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame
How to Win Sports Awards Without Lifting a Muscle
I recently learned that I had earned a state first place science award for my two-part column in this newspaper about grunion hunting. There is a long story connected to that. I first wrote abou...
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This picture of the three-masted ship Alert is a time-worn copy of a painting by Sidney Chase that appears in Doris I. Walker’s book, Home Port for Romance. The original painting is owned by the Dana family. Photo courtesy of the Doris Walker collection
Namesake Dana’s “Other Ship” That Brought Him Here
Mere months after Richard Henry Dana first visited Capistrano Bay aboard the small, 87-foot-long, two-masted brig Pilgrim, he transferred to the larger three-masted, 113-foot ship, Alert. Soon he f...
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The author’s grandparents and the first half of their brood of children pose beside the house Grandpa John built by hand for his bride. War brought extreme sadness to them in a very unusual way. Photo from Doris I. Walker’s collection.
A Double Salute to: War Zone Veterans and Home Front Flu Shots
This is a true story that I can tell only as it affected my own family a generation before I joined it. Similar scenarios were probably happening all over the world at that time ... on what became ...
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