The Santa Cruz Mountains, an area covering almost 1,400 square miles from San Francisco southward to the Monterey County line, are a part of the Coast Range of

The history of this California mission from its founding in 1791, through its development and use in serving the Ohlone Indians, and its secularization and func

Almost all US cities are controlled by real estate and development interests, but Santa Cruz, California, is a deviant case. An unusual coalition of socialist-f

Santa Cruz is located on the northern tip of Monterey Bay on California's central coast. Surfing was first introduced to the U.S. mainland in Santa Cruz by thre

First person accounts from the pioneers of the Hip Culture of Santa Cruz in the 1960s, including: Pat Bisconti, Rick Gladstone, Max Hartstein, Peter Demma, Bob