Today, we have Katherine Blunt on the program. Katherine is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid. The book, a national bestseller, won the 2022 Golden Poppy award for nonfiction.
Her coverage of PG&E, a collaboration with two colleagues, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and earned a Gerald Loeb award, the highest honor in business journalism.
In this episode, we continue the story of Serra, following his departure and arrival in New Spain.
We explore in this episode how the first people arrived to California.
In this final episode on the mission system, we explore parts of the history of Santa Barbara Mission.