Mission San Juan Capistrano

Mission San Juan Capistrano
Author: Kathleen J. Edgar
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2003-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780823958894

Discusses the Mission San Juan Capistrano from its founding in 1776 to the present day, including the reasons for Spanish colonization in California and the effects of colonization on the Acagchemem, or Juaneño, Indians.

Discovering Mission San Juan Capistrano

Discovering Mission San Juan Capistrano
Author: Jeannette Buckley
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1502612178

Learn about the rich history of Mission San Juan Capistranol: how it started, the people who ran it, the indigenous population, and its legacy today.

San Juan Capistrano

San Juan Capistrano
Author: Pamela Hallan-Gibson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738530444

The legendary swallows aren't the only annual returnees to San Juan Capistrano. The great coastal mission draws more than 500,000 visitors a year into the southern reaches of Orange County. The most famous of all the missions in the California system established in the 18th century by Franciscan friar Junipero Serra, Mission San Juan Capistrano still contains the Serra Chapel, the oldest church in California, and the only building still standing where the good padre celebrated mass. But San Juan Capistrano is more than its well-known mission. Its epic story encompasses the rancho days and land barons, California statehood, the arrival of the San Diego Freeway in 1958, city incorporation in 1961, and recent growth from 10,000 residents in 1974 to 34,000 in 2004.

Discovering Mission San Luis Rey de Francia

Discovering Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
Author: Jeannette Buckley
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1627131140

Learn about the rich history of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia: how it started, the people who ran it, the indigenous population, and its legacy today.

Discovering Mission Santa Bárbara

Discovering Mission Santa Bárbara
Author: Jack Connelly
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1627131000

Learn about the rich history of Mission Santa Bárbara: how it started, the people who ran it, the indigenous population, and its legacy today.

California Missions Coloring Book

California Missions Coloring Book
Author: David Rickman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1992-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780486273464

Accurate renderings of 21 structures: San Diego de Alcalá, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Clara de Asís, San José de Guadalupe, Santa Cruz, many more, plus realistic vignettes of mission life. Captions.

Jewel of the Missions

Jewel of the Missions
Author: Lorna Collins, Dr
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-10-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539588559

Mission San Juan Capistrano has long been called "The Jewel of the Missions." This book captures the history of the mission from its founding in 1776 by Father (now Saint) Junipero Serra to the present day. Between the pages, you will learn about many features of the mission and discover why it continues to be a local treasure and a favorite of tourists. Lorna Collins is a local author who has co-written a novel about Mission San Juan Capistrano called "The Memory Keeper." She and her husband, Larry K. Collins, are currently working on the sequel to the novel to be titled, "Becoming the Jewel." Robert L. Schwenck is an award-winning local artist, who has been painting the mission and the town of San Juan Capistrano for many years. His love of the city and its historic buildings is evident in his work.

Journey to the Sun

Journey to the Sun
Author: Gregory Orfalea
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451642725

The narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West. In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junipero Serra left his position as a highly regarded priest in Spain for the turbulent and dangerous New World, knowing he would never return. The Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church both sought expansion in Mexico--the former in search of gold, the latter seeking souls--as well as entry into the mysterious land to the north called "California." By his death at age seventy-one, Serra had traveled more than 14,000 miles on land and sea through the New World--much of that distance on a chronically infected and painful foot--baptized and confirmed 6,000 Indians, and founded nine of California's twenty-one missions, with his followers establishing the rest.

Heart of Glass

Heart of Glass
Author: Diane Noble
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307786013

Filled with warmth and tender insights, Heart of Glass follows the unforgettable Fairwyn March from young adulthood through midlife during the final decades of the nineteenth century. A free-spirited beauty whose life brims with mountain lore and dulcimer music, Fairwyn disastrously loses her heart to the ambitions of a man who wants only to change her. Determined to be everything her husband wants, she gives up the core of herself. Then one day, she discovers a secret that shatters her world. Sending herself into self-imposed exile, Fairwyn allows her family to believe her dead. Her journey takes her across the continent–and into the landscape of her heart. In the most unlikely of places–California’s decaying Mission San Juan Capistrano–she meets another exile in need of healing. Bound together in tender friendship, they also discover hope in God’s promise of love without condition. A spellbinding journey into the human heart. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Vietnamese in Orange County

Vietnamese in Orange County
Author: Thuy Vo Dang, Linda Trinh Vo and Tram Le
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467133213

Vietnamese Americans have transformed the social, cultural, economic, and political life of Orange County, California. Previously, there were Vietnamese international students, international or war brides, or military personnel living in the United States, but the majority arrived as refugees and immigrants after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Although they are lumped together as "refugees," Vietnamese Americans are diverse in terms of their class, ethnic, regional, religious, linguistic, and ideological backgrounds. Their migration path varied, and they often struggled with resettling in a new homeland and rebuilding their lives. They are dispersed throughout the country, but many are concentrated in central Orange County, where three cities--Westminster, Garden Grove, and Santa Ana--have "Welcome to Little Saigon" signs. They constitute the largest population of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam and have created flourishing residential neighborhoods and bustling commercial centers and contribute to the political and cultural life of the region. This book captures snapshots of Vietnamese life in Orange County over the span of 40 years and shows a dynamic, vibrant community that is revitalizing the region.