Arts & Culture

These are a collection of images from our photojournalist Tarmo Hannula that did not make it into stories, but we think should be enjoyed. Do you have a photo you’d like to be considered for our gallery? Send it to editor@pajaronian.com.

The annual Mexican Independence Day Festival is set for Sunday in downtown Watsonville Sunday. Put on by Fiestas Patrias, the free event will feature live music, food booths, arts and crafts and information tables spread out around Watsonville Plaza and surrounding streets.  This year the...

Sea Scouts from Ship 98 receive their quartermaster ratings at a ceremony at the Elkhorn Yacht Club on April 20, 1956. Shown here are Mrs. Gilbert Perry (from left), her son, James, Billy Shultz and her mother, Mrs. Harold Shultz.

Some of Martin Vargas-Vega’s earliest memories are of waking up in the strawberry and raspberry fields around Watsonville. His immigrant parents picked berries, and when Vargas-Vega was young, the fields essentially served as daycare. His relatives worked nearby, as did the families of other children...

On July 27 my wife, Sarah, and I took a one-week trip to Zacatecas, Mexico. Our goal was to take in the world flavors of the annual Festival Zacatecas del Folklor International that spreads out around the colonial city over a week. Situated in central...

Three artworks have been chosen to be installed in the traffic circle at the intersection of Clifford Avenue and Pennsylvania Drive.  City staff received an application and proposal for a new public art spearheaded by an anonymous donor. The donor, a Watsonville resident, has commissioned...

A length of Freedom Boulevard is shown in the mid-1950s in Watsonville.

This woman climbs aboard a Watsonville Transit bus on the Freedom-Airport route on March 24, 1954.

Anglers crowd the deck of SS Palo Alto concrete ship at Seacliff State Beach on May 31, 1954.

Santa Cruz County will test steam as an alternative to chemical soil fumigation on about 25 acres of Pajaro Valley farmland under a $175,000 state-funded pilot project set to begin this fall. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation is funding the project, which will be...