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...
by Joe Carotenuti | May 1, 2018 | Community, History, Nonprofit, San Luis Obispo
Progress carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction. The glory of conquest will eventually witness its celebrants gone; its purpose mostly forgotten. The promise of life will wend its way through time-with varying degrees of longevity-to the inevitable...
by Joe Carotenuti | Apr 20, 2018 | Community, History, San Luis Obispo
Thousands stroll across, listen to music, and sit and enjoy the ambiance surrounding the center of San Luis Obispo cast against the backdrop of California’s oldest mission in its original location. Mission Plaza is the modern update but its origins predate any local...
