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UC Santa Cruz Library publishes vast photo archive from iconic ‘Death of a Valley’

UC Santa Cruz Library has digitized and made publicly available 3,200 images taken by Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones from their photo project that captured the final year of Monticello.
An illustration of a building on fire. Text at the bottom of the illustration reads "THE WINERY WAS EIDENTLY DOOMED TREES BLAZING FROM TOP TO BOTTOM HAD PLUNGED ACROSS THE GULCH, BRIDGING IT WITH FLAME. AND THE BUILDING WAS THREATENED ON EVERY SIDE"
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New method to raise investment funds for projects that restore coastal wetlands for climate adaptation

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A reckoning in fiction: Karen Tei Yamashita returns to Bookshop Santa Cruz with acclaimed new novel Questions 27 & 28

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