Arts & Culture

In May my wife, Sarah, and I took a nine-day, 1,250-mile road trip to southern California with a goal of checking out coastal towns big and small.  We headed south through Prunedale and caught Highway 101 south aiming for Santa Barbara where we had a...

Girl Scout leaders meet for a dinner in Watsonville in 1957.

The city of Watsonville received this new Plymouth A-1 Ambulance in 1961. (photo by Sam Vestal, Pajaronian file)

These folks practice carrying clouds in preparation for an upcoming Mardi Gras event in Watsonville on Feb. 1, 1961

A delivery truck for Brew 102 arrives at Freedom Liquors in Watsonville at the corner of Freedom Boulevard and Green Valley Road in 1961.

Field workers harvest a strawberry crop along San Andreas Road in Watsonville in 1954.

Watsonville Union High School students pull a prank on a fellow student on April Fool's Day, Apr. 1, 1957.

On a recent one-day drive through San Jose, my wife, Sarah, and I took in a wealth of rich sites, from the red salty shore of Alviso Marina County Park, the splashy shops of Santana Row, and to the north, the calm and rolling...

Thanks to the efforts of the Pajaro Valley Arts and a cast of volunteers, the 20th annual “Sculpture IS: In the Garden” has been installed at the two-acre Sierra Azul Nursery demonstration gardens in Watsonville. “With twenty successful exhibitions behind us, we are excited to...

Boys on a Pee-Wee Softball team suit up for a game in Watsonville on Jan. 16, 1957. (Sam Vestal/ Pajaronian file)