by Joe Carotenuti | Nov 1, 2018 | Community, History, San Luis Obispo
Just what makes a community? There must be people, structures, various elements of governance and–unfortunately–the less virtuous of humans. Whatever the mix, a community is greater than the sum of its parts and its various factions amplify its definition. One telling...
by Joe Carotenuti | Nov 1, 2018 | Community, Nonprofit, San Luis Obispo
Just what would you do with an extra one or two hundred million or so dollars? Beyond the comprehension of most of us, Bernard Osher decided to promote learning. One of the world’s wealthiest men envisioned not another experimental program for schools or universities...
by Joe Carotenuti | Oct 1, 2018 | Community, History, San Luis Obispo
Human beings are a gregarious lot. To survive there needs to be at least two of them to continue and when successful—have more of their kind around. It’s called a family. Somewhere in time, families joined together and were now a tribe eventually evolving into a...
by Joe Carotenuti | Sep 1, 2018 | History, San Luis Obispo
The major civic ancestor for San Luis Obispo—both county and city—was born on September 1, 1772. In a hastily conducted ceremony, Fra Junipero Serra intonated the ritual es- tablishing the fifth outpost in the spiritual “conquest” of Alta California. Understandably...
by Joe Carotenuti | Jul 1, 2018 | Cayucos, Community, History, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo
Just where do you fit into your family tree? Genealogists relish tracing ancestry back through generations of lineage and the royal courts are sure to delineate to the most intricate of details. Any hereditary monarch must become so through ancestry. So, too, history...
