HAWTHORNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESERVATION. COLLECTION. RESEARCH. INTERPRETATION. April Change is in the air this month. If you’re an early riser, the Sun is giving you a race. If you’re waiting for the day to end, daylight is reaching farther into the evening hours. Baseball Season, Daylight Savings and major religious holidays have arrived. You’ve filed…
HAWTHORNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESERVATION. COLLECTION. RESEARCH. INTERPRETATION. October Let’s begin with the end of the month that is now rushing by, trailing behind it the last months of the year and all the important holidays that demand our attention. On the last evening of October, the spirits of the departed will return to commune with…
HAWTHORNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESERVATION. COLLECTION. RESEARCH. INTERPRETATION. Harvest Moon Late in September, a full moon will rise over the rooftops of Gardena and cast her warm light on Hawthorne. In ancient American tradition, she is called “the Harvest Moon,” coming nearest as she does to the sunset of the autumnal equinox – when the day…
HAWTHORNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESERVATION. COLLECTION. RESEARCH. INTERPRETATION. Summer changes the whole picture. It alters every human activity to fit its contours: what we wear, what we eat, what we do, where we go. Summer arrives when the solstice wraps the risen sun around the Northern Hemisphere in the longest stretch of daylight – this year,…
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