Arts & Culture

The First Aloha Music & Arts Festival, inspired by the spirit of aloha and Hawaii, will take place at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds July 31, and Aug. 1. The free event will feature music, art and crafts, and food that celebrates Hawaiian, Polynesian,...

These high school juniors lend a hand helping the Blood Bank for the Red Cross on Dec. 27, 1956.

On day two of our nine-day road trip to Los Angeles in May, My wife Sarah and I headed south from Santa Barbara, but not before we scouted out the burial site of my mother’s parents at the Santa Barbara Cemetery.  Thanks to online research,...

Frequent world-traveler Mary Altier of La Selva Beach is showing her photographs at the Aptos Branch Library.   “Around the World with Color Photography,” a 60-piece exhibition, will run through Sept. 30.  The show, which is spread out in several rooms at the library, features images taken...

The Moreland Notre Dame Brownie troop lines up for an event in Watsonville on Dec 17, 1956.

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.