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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This coming September 11, the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States, General Dynamics NASSCO plans to christen and launch the USS Washington Chambers, named for the Navy officer who arranged a century ago for the first airplane flight from the deck of a Navy ship. Having […]
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL CITY, California—In the mid 1980s, San Diego’s Acting Mayor Bill Cleator organized the San Diego Cruise Industry Consortium – an association of private and public entities that all shared an interest in attracting cruise ships to this city. Thirty years later, thanks to a sustained marketing follow-up by the Port
Super yachts bring glamour and money to San Diego’s economy Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL CITY, California – Observing the National City Marine Terminal from the top deck of M.V. Jean Anne, a 13,000-metric ton ship that transports automobiles and other cargo between San Diego County and the Hawaiian Islands, I could imagine four 19th Century San Diego pioneers standing there with me and nudging each
Old Louis Rose might have kvelled over National City Marine Terminal Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
By Donald H. Harrison AGUANGA, California—The olive groves in this rural Riverside County community about 20 miles east of Temecula may become one of the growing grounds for Middle Eastern peace if Israeli, Palestinian and American visionaries are successful in promulgating the idea that entrepreneurship and business cooperation between the Middle Eastern neighbors
A vision in a California olive grove of Mideast peace Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Miramar National Cemetery was dedicated Saturday, January 30, 2010, by two members of Congress and ranking officials of the military and Veterans Administration with promises that San Diego will once again be able to bury the bodies of its veterans—and not only their ashes—before the end of the year.
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Donald H. Harrison
SAN DIEGO—For more than a month, workers have been laboring at county-owned Heritage Park in Old Town to restore the original Temple Beth Israel and six other historic buildings to the glory of their 19th century conditions, while preparing the overall development for a new life as a reception hall and bed-and-breakfast park. Partners Bill
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Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Today, Katherine Olivia Sessions (1857-1940) might have gotten an argument from conservationists who believe introduction of new plant species adversely impact the surrounding eco-system. However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when San Diego was attempting to attract businesses and new residents, Sessions was highly admired
San Diego’s Historic Places: Kate Sessions around the town Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Except for the fact that there are no moving sidewalks—or vehicles with safety bars that snap you in for a ride—the new Mormon Battalion Museum at Old Town San Diego is similar to a Disneyland experience. It is high-tech, interactive, and well thought out every step of
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
Plaintiffs’ Plight 1984 by Donald Moses, Author House, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4490-2633-2, 362 pages, By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A new solo practitioner has burst onto the literary legal scene: the meticulous but fictional lawyer Dan Masters, who not only has the same initials as the author but who, like him, is a San Diego-based attorney.
Novelist provides enjoyable lessons in civil law procedure Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The exterior of the San Diego House adobe in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is unremarkable, but historians will tell you that the building had a way of attracting to its ownership over the last century and a half the kind of people of whom legends
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
Ben Kamin, Nothing Like Sunshine, Michigan State University Press, 146 pages, $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Rabbi Ben Kamin was in the tenth grade in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the April day in 1968 that Martin Luther King was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The murder of the
Kamin’s ‘Nothing Like Sunshine’ is a personal exploration of Black-Jewish relationship Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California –Denny Whitson lives across the street from the large mushroom shaped water tank with clouds around its rim. He likes it very much, noting that he can look up from 20 miles away and know exactly where his home is. Other people aren’t quite so enamored
Brown mushroom water tower is cloudy but seen for miles Read More »
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When a U.S. Marine Corps detachment from the USS Cyane marched from the shore of San Diego Bay to the plaza in Old Town San Diego on July 29, 1846 and raised the American flag without serious challenge, thus ending Mexican control over this city, someone must have thought, ‘Wait
San Diego County’s Historic Places: San Pasqual Battleground Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, USA
Eva’s Story by Eva Schloss (with Evelyn Julia Kent), William B. Eerdman Publishing Co, 2010, 226 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This is an updated version of the memoirs of Eva Schloss, who was the posthumous stepsister of the immortal Anne Frank. Originally published in 1988, the current edition brings readers up to date
Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, writes intriguing memoir Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History