0 LIVING, SJC Living Moments in Time: Days of Our Lives in SJC: Part 4 By Jan Siegel Sylvestro Morales was able to avoid capture. On August 20, he went to a cousin’s home near Rancho Santa Fe. He knew…
0 LIVING, SJC Living Moments in Time: Days of Our Lives in SJC: Part 3 By Jan Siegel As the story continues, while Pablo Pryor was trying to draw up more maps, Henry Charles acquired 160 acres worth of “Valentine…
0 LIVING Moments in Time: Days of Our Lives in SJC: Part 2 By Jan Siegel Editor’s note: This is a multipart series. The first part ran here. In 1866, Fr. Joseph Mut arrived as priest of the…
0 LIVING Moments in Time: Days of Our Lives in SJC: Part 1 by Jan Siegel Editor’s note: This is the first in a multipart series. It was a dark and stormy night … no, not that story….
0 LIVING Moments in Time: Holiday Traditions by Jan Siegel One of the great aspects of the holidays is the food and the family traditions that go with each recipe. This year,…
0 LIVING Moments in Time: Laws, Thankfulness and History By Jan Siegel I am writing this prior to the results of the 2020 election, as well as before Thanksgiving. I hope that this article…
0 LIVING Moments in Time: Change is Nothing New by Jan Siegel At the moment, we are going through some very difficult times. But 100 years ago, we were going through even more changes…
0 LIVING Moments in Time: Recognizing The Ecology Center By Jan Siegel A dozen years ago, a young man came to San Juan Capistrano with a dream of making agriculture sustainable, usable and workable…
0 LIVING Moments in Time: Our Community Has Survived Previous Disasters By Jan Siegel The unintended consequences of disasters, whether it is drought, flood, earthquake or pandemic, is not new. Lifestyle changes will certainly take place…
0 LIVING Moments in Time: History of Women’s Suffrage By Jan Siegel As we get ready to celebrate Mother’s Day, there is a group of women who have been overlooked in the history of…
0 LIVING Moments in Time: The History of Gertrude Rios and the Rios Olive Tree By Jan Siegel So much for March/April being a very busy time in San Juan Capistrano. We have changed March Madness for Spring Sadness as…
0 LIVING Moments in Time: Basque Families Contributed to History by Jan Siegel The year of 1910 is best remembered as the year that Fr. St. John O’Sullivan arrived in San Juan Capistrano and started…
0 LIVING, SJC Living Moments In Time: Historical Society to Celebrate Dia de Los Muertos By Jan Siegel On Saturday, Oct. 19, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the Historical Society is hosting a cultural, educational crafting and eating event…
0 LIVING, SJC Living Moments in Time: Historical Society Elects Cecelia Hunn as New Matriarch By Jan Siegel In 1967, The San Juan Capistrano Historical Society was the first Society in California to honor older men and women of the…
0 Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX Moments in Time: Portola Expedition Finds Its Way to SJC By Jan Siegel I do not like repeating myself, but it really is true that if you check far back enough, most things in California…
