California Legacy Project

The California Legacy Project, initiated at Santa Clara University, has the direction of informing the masses of the history and legacy of California. It is synonymous that the east coast and New England has more history that is chronicled, shared, and taught throughout the nation than the west coast in general, however it is the California Legacy Project’s goal to inform other Californians of facts and tidbits of information that will foster a better understanding of the history of the state that we live in. The CLP hosts a variety of Podcasts through iTunes which feature one minute and thirty second long clips with interesting facts of California history within them. In their first published Podcast on October 30, 2006, a poem entitled “Facing West”, by Walt Whitman, is read by Terry Biers that dictates a gorgeous California landscape, but not much beyond that. In another Podcast entitled “Derby: “Benicia Nonsense”, the perspective of an individual is narrated during the gold rush and offers a vivid view of California in his time and through his words, but also offers a bit of history that was new to me. I preferred the second Podcast because it offered history of California’s legacy, instead of the narration of a poem and I believe that it is also a better representation of the mission of the California Legacy Project.

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