Donald H. Harrison

  By Donald H. Harrison   JULIAN, California – Whites who had been slaveholders and blacks who had been slaves contributed to the early history of Julian.  Today, in the colorful mountain town of gold mines, apples and antiques, both groups of people as well as other ethnic groups  are remembered and honored. One of

  By Donald H. Harrison CARLSBAD, Calif—Although Leo Carrillo had become a fairly well known star on Broadway, it wasn’t until after Sam Warner talked him into becoming a movie actor that his fame became international. With earnings from the movies, Carrillo was able to purchase in 1937 a large ranch in the hills of

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

  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.

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

  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

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.

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

  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