Flower women

Chino Valley was once part of the immense Rancho Santa Ana del Chino grant conferred in 1841 to Don Antonio Lugo, the former alcalde of Los Angeles. Forty years later, a portion of the rancho was sold to Richard Gird, an American entrepreneur and prospector from Tombstone, Arizona. With characteristic Yankee ingenuity, Gird increased his holdings to nearly 50,000 acres in a short period of time, planned and developed the present-day city of Chino, and transformed the valley into an agricultural empire based on sugar beet production. Chino later emerged as the center for the California dairy...

En palabras de Claudio Rolle, la travesía va dejando vestigios de vida restituida por medio de los objetos, los apuntes, las huellas que, de manera más o menos involuntaria, dejaron esos hombres y mujeres cuya cadena vital se interrumpió al desaparecer sus etnias. Ante tamaña tragedia el silencio parece ser una primera respuesta, un silencio de conmoción y sobrecogimiento, de respeto y de solidaridad con las víctimas de un exterminio. Pero luego emerge con fuerza el imperativo que la historia en cuanto disciplina de conocimiento de la aventura humana en el tiempo y en sociedad nos...

Images of America: Springfield Volume I gave readers a photographic history of the city’s ethnic populations and religions. It also told the story of education and public service in the “City of Firsts.” In Springfield Volume II, author Ginger Zabecki Cruickshank takes readers on a second journey through the past to the origins of the city’s many businesses, transportation systems, and social agencies, such as the YMCA and local hospitals that have served the people of Springfield, as well as some of the best sports stories in the city’s history. The stories and early photographs of ...