Old Town archive for February, 2012

Rising from the Trenches Part 2: San Diego's Urban Corps Receives Two National Awards

Not sure if you’ve heard the news yet, but we had local heroes recognized in Washington, D.C. last week. During ...

THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (V)

Bret Harte’s California, his regional mythmaking effort embodied in twenty volumes of collected works, also includes the tyranny of lynch ...

It's all French at Jason’s Coffee Cart

Is that…could it be…? Jason! I’d know that face anywhere. Even here in Old Town. “I bought this,” he says. ...

THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (IV)

Book Fifth occasions the end of the novel. In the original American Publishing Company edition, it is the last “book” ...

THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (III)

Stylistically, Harte’s description of the Spanish Quarter in San Francisco displays archetypal terminology. The changing “grade” refers to the original ...