The California Legacy Project is a project put together by the publisher Heyday and Santa Clara University. Together Heyday and Santa Clara work on this project to publish books and hosts a radio station about California. I took the time to look at their page and listen to the podcast on John Muir (my favorite line in the whole site is “No wonder East Coast elites like Woody Allen think there’s no culture here. “).
John Muir was a great Californian. I happen to be writing a paper for Econ and History about the Earthquake of 1906, and it was refreshing to hear a first hand story of what the great earthquake was like. The site on Muir has wonderful readings of Muir’s own words read by the local scholars who work on the project. I think it is wonderful that there is a site like this that celebrates how amazing California is, and keeps it’s unique history. The history of California is different from that of the rest of the United States, and sites like this are going to keep that history so that it is not forgotten.