SAN DIEGO –Donald H. Harrison, editor of San Diego Jewish World, inaugurates a series today on historic places in San Diego County.
The series is built on current reportage as well as upon research that Harrison has done as the author of Louis Rose: San Diego’s First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur (Sunbelt Publications, 2005) and as one of the founders in 1989 of Old Town Trolley Tours of San Diego.
In “Historic San Diego Places,” Harrison will examine venues that visitors may go to better appreciate San Diego County’s four major eras of history: Native American, Spanish colonial, Mexican, and American.
To be called “Historic San Diego Places,” the series will be launched with an examination of some of the places in the county where one may encounter the culture of the Kumeyaay Indians, and then will tell of places associated with the Spanish period of exploration and colonization, before moving onto the Mexican and American periods.
The series will examine people of many ethnicities and religious backgrounds, in addition to telling of the contributions and development of San Diego’s Jewish community.
Owing to the vastness of San Diego County’ geography, the series occasionally will skip back and forth through the four eras.
We hope you will enjoy it.