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Through our newsletter, the Lime Kiln Chronicles, the Friends share the latest in historical research, recent gifts, and activities in the District.  The Chronicles is published twice yearly: the Spring/Summer issue, around April 1; the Fall/Winter issue, around October 1.

Fall 2024 – Winter 2025 (pdf)

• Sarah Cowell
• Cooperage Update
• In the Newspapers, 100 Years Ago …
• Lime’s Influence Reached Far and Wide
• Membership Renewal

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Spring – Summer 2024 (pdf)

• Helen Cowell
• Planning for Cooperage Rehabilitation Continues
• Welcome John McKelvey
• In the Newspapers, 100 Years Ago …
• Join us at the 2024 Santa Cruz County History Fair

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Fall 2023 – Winter 2024 (pdf)

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Fall 2017 – Winter 2018 (pdf)

• Tales from the Cowell Cooperage
• Quarry Amphitheater Opens Again
• 100 Years Ago …
• In Memory of Peter Jordan
• Hay Barn Project Wins Awards

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Spring – Summer 2017 (pdf)

• A Tale of Two Immigrants
• 100 Years Ago …
• History Fair a Success!
• New and Renewing Members
• A Chat with Cowell

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Fall 2016 – Winter 2017 (pdf)

• The Curious Case of A. S. T. Johnson
• Students Dig Into History
• History Fair on October 8
• Friends Help Save Historic Weathervane
• In Memory of Edith Bell

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Spring – Summer 2016 (pdf)

• Cardiff House renovation
• Comparing campus lime kilns
• Hickey family descendents
• Airport proposal in 1928

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Fall 2015 – Winter 2016 (pdf)

• Who Was Henry Cowell?
• Cardiff House Gets Seismic Upgrade
• Friends Invite Local Groups to Join in History Fair in ‘New’ Hay Barn
• Hay Barn Dedicated

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Spring – Summer 2015 (pdf)

• Les Strong interview
• Archaeological dig
• 50th Anniversary tours
• Quarry Amphitheater
• UCSC origins book
• Historic preservation

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Fall 2014 – Winter 2015 (pdf)

• Cowell Ranch Memories
• New Teaching Resource Available
• Municipal Wharf Had Early Ties to Cowell
• Hiking the Rincon Road

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Spring – Summer 2014 (pdf)

• Archaeology, Student Dig
• Bison, Cowell Ranch
• Buffalo, Cowell Ranch
• Cardiff House, sesquicentennial
• Cowell, Henry, photos of
• Hay Barn, disassembly
• Hunting, prohibited on Cowell Ranch
• Jordan, A. P.,  builds house
• Trucks, Mack
• Exhibits, Crystals, Caves, & Kilns

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Fall 2013 – Winter 2014 (pdf)

• Crystals, Caves & Kilns exhibit
• Snowball firebricks
• Student archaeology dig
• Hay Barn Restoration
• Kalkar Quarry
• George Silva historic photos

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Spring – Summer 2013 (pdf)

• Hay Barn to be Restored!
• Lime’s Sister Industry: Bituminous Rock
• A Model Home (Cabin B)
• The New Fence, Boy Scout Jonathan Chaney
• New Signs Greet Visitors
• Spring Archaeological Excavation
• IRA Charitable Rollover Program Reauthorized for 2013
• Branding Iron
• A Crash Course in Technology
• Lime and Fingerprints
• Isaac Davis Quasquicentennial

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Fall 2012 – Winter 2013 (pdf)

• Archaeology (cabin B study completed)
• Barn, Hay (exhibit at the MAH)
• Barn, Hay (feasibility study)
• Bricks (sent to museum in Japan)
• Cooperage (study completed)
• Cowell, Ernest V. (employees in will)
• “Our Lady of Miracles” (artifact discovered)
• Paramoure, Patricia (archaeology study by)
• Photograph (aerial, 1957)
• Signs, interpretive (funding received)

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Spring – Summer 2012 (pdf)

• Cabin B Restoration (restoration photos)
• Cattle
• Conde, Joseph (interview)
• Cook House (last cooks)
• Cowell, Alica (petitions for more money, 1912)
• Cowell, S. H. (supposed last visit)
• Hay (harvesting)
• Hunters (unwelcome on Cowell Ranch)
• Lime Kilns (description of Rincon)
• Lorenzana, Jim (interview)
• Morgan, Sally (staff liaison departs)
• Netto, Joseph and Mary (worked for Cowell)
• Plants (tour to see)
• Rincon
• Timber Framing (lecture and demonstration)

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Fall 2011 – Winter 2012 (pdf)

• Barn, Hay (study completed)
• Boy Scouts (restore fence)
• Community Foundation (grant for cooperage)
• Gosliner, Aaron (sign discovered)
• Lime Kiln, continuous (sesquicentennial)
• Movies (made here in 1911)
• Muse, Stan (boy scouts restore fence)
• Photographs (taken in 1960s)
• Signs, interpretive (prototype installed)

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Spring – Summer 2011 (pdf)

• Barn, Hay (documentation starts)
• Cardiff Shed (restoration work)
• Cowell, S. H. (birthday and biography)

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Fall 2010 – Winter 2011 (pdf)

• Archaeology (update on Cabin B)
• Baker-Rabe, Philippa (interview with student)
• Cooperage (grant to document)
• Jordan descendants (visit lime works)
• Nails (using to date Cabin B)
• National Trust for Hist. Preservation (grant)
• Newspapers (old ones in Cabin B)
• Wood (donated)

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Spring – Summer 2010 (pdf)

• Barrel lifer (tool)
• Plaque, National Register (unveiled)
• Sugar (use of lime making)

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Fall 2009 – Winter 2010 (pdf)

• Cabin B (restoration continues)
• Certificate of Appreciation from City
• Conference, Lime (report on)
• Jordan, A. P. and family

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Spring – Summer 2009 (pdf)

• Brown, Albert (biography)
• Cabin B (restoration begins)
• Cooperage (grant to stabilize)
• Cowell, Henry (quote about kiln)
• Cowell, S. H. Foundation (grant from)
• Depressions, economic

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Fall 2008 – Winter 2009 (pdf)

• Bricks (refractory used in kilns)
• Cabrillo Civic Club (donation)
• Cacace, Jo Ann (interview)
• Cowell, Henry (confusion with musician)
• Lime (used by rich and famous)
• Rose (heritage variety at Cabin B)
• Silva, Carlos (family history)