A series of bronze plaques lead visitors up the walkway to Colton Hall in Monterey, site of the state’s Constitutional Convention. At the top
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Author: Thom Diggins
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Stephanie Rozzo, local illustrator and CSUMB grad, has created a masterpiece of public art so wondrous as to immediately rank it among
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“Sloat’s Landing”: The Events of July 7, 1846 The United States was a strong, brash nation in 1846. During the previous fifty years
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