Diana Starr joined the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) only two years ago, and she is now preparing to become the Regent for the local Point Vicente chapter in June.
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“We are considered to be America’s Cheerleaders,” she says, “We positively bleed red, white and blue!” Alta Graham knows how to work an audience.
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Early on an April morning a truck carrying a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Memorial) Wall, “The Wall That Heals” (Wall), arrived at Johnson Park in the City of Gardena.
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Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution
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Many Peninsula locals are familiar with community-favorite spot Torrance Bakery. The Rossberg family opened the bakery in 1984 with only six employees and 1200 square feet.
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A journalists job is to report on informative, important or impactful news, where they shine the spotlight on someone or something other than themselves.
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I think this is a wonderful milestone that demands a special acknowledgement of our founder and my cousin, Nancy Banning Call.
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A few weeks after the church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. closed to the public due to land movement, officials recently announced that Wayfarers Chapel, the famous glass and redwood sanctuary on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, would be disassembled and relocated.
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I’m not sure if it was the roar of engines that sunny morning in June 1923 or the sight of 300 Model T Fords “racing” toward the barren peninsula from Torrance, but something new and wonderful was afoot.
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The Point Vicente Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution commemorated the end of the Vietnam War this month by inviting Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard King to speak about his experience.
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Loss of any kind; youth, a person, a relationship, a job, a place, a country, or a love, brings stress. Some people jump the gun and pre-grieve a real or imagined loss.
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In recent survey of US cities with a combination of the highest median annual income and the most residents over 65 years of age, Rancho Palos Verdes came in 1st nationally.
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Once upon a time, nestled along the rugged coastline of Southern California, there lay a place of exquisite beauty known as Palos Verdes.
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The Villas that were planned to be built in Portuguese Bend in the 1920's were due to a great vision of what could become of the practically barren land of the Bixby family's Rancho Los Palos Verdes.
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During the 1910s, years before the start of that famous annual parade of tuxes and evening gowns known as the Oscars, the U.S. moviemaking industry was a more informal place–albeit a hardworking and highly competitive one.
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The Palos Verdes Peninsula is a miss-tickle place!
Recent surveys from the Fairy Godmother and Godfather Society nominated the P.V. Peninsula as America’s sacred “Spiritual Belly Button.”
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In spite of their desire to do their part for their country, African Americans were forced to take lesser roles in the military until the early 1940’s. This not only pertained to leadership roles, but simpler roles as well. During World War I, African Americans were not allowed to serve at pilots or even observers in aircraft or observation balloons.
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