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John A. Stones California Songster
John A. Stones California Songster
Elizabeth Thacher Kent
Elizabeth Thacher Kent

  ... that the 1985 Pacific Conference Games, held at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley, was the fifth and final Pacific Conference Games between Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States?
  ... that California Gold Rush song collector John A. Stone composed Sweet Betsy from Pike? (songbook pictured)
  ... that during the Cold War Fort Cronkhite was used to house soldiers of the nearby SF-88 Nike Missile launch site?
  ... that Elizabeth Thacher Kent (pictured) helped create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the government?
  ... that Mountain View based Made In Space, Inc.'s 3D Zero-G Printer was the first manufacturing device in space?
  ... that Marsh Creek State Park was named for John Marsh, the first non-Hispanic European to settle in what is now Contra Costa County?

February 2015

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