Watsonville is in the Heart: Community Digital Archive

Tuzon kids in front of fallow field

Modesto Orlando and Rita Tuzon beside a fallow field. Rita is wearing hand-sewn clothes by their…

Tags: Family, Fashion, Leisure, Mixed-race Identity

In this interview, originally recorded on Zoom, Manuel Bersamin speaks with Watsonville is in the…

Tags: Agriculture, Cockfights, Community, Cooking, Food, Hawai'i, Interracial Relations, Labor, Leisure, Manongs, Marriage, Mexicali, Migration, Mixed-race Identity, Oral History, Race, Racism, Salinas, Strikes, United Farm Workers, Watsonville

In this interview, originally recorded via Zoom, Mariano Sulay speaks with Dr. Kathleen "Kat" Cruz…

Tags: Cockfights, Dances, Family, Interracial Relations, Labor, Marriage, Migration, Mixed-race Identity, Oral History, Race, Riots, Rowe Ranch, Strikes, United Farm Workers, Watsonville Veterans' Hall

Maria Quintero and Clemente Florendo Sr. at their family home on Maple Avenue in Watsonville. The…

Tags: Family, Interracial Relations, Maple Avenue, Mixed-race Identity, Photograph

In this interview conducted in person, Mary Florendo Perry speaks with Dr. Steven McKay, a member of…

Tags: Agriculture, Businesses, Food, Gardening, Interracial Relations, Labor, Leisure, Main Street, Manongs, Marriage, Mexicali, Migration, Mixed-race Identity, Oral History, Watsonville

A photograph of an invitation to a Mother's Day dance sponsored by the Filipino Youth Club. The…

Tags: Dances, Filipino Youth Club, Mixed-race Identity, Object

In this interview, originally recorded in person, Maurice Carrillo speaks with Nicholas Nasser, a…

In this interview, originally recorded in-person, Modesto Orlando Tuzon and Rita Louise Tuzon speak…

Tags: Agriculture, Arroyo Grande, Family, Interracial Relations, Labor, Las Lomas, Leisure, Lewis Road, Manongs, Marriage, Migration, Mixed-race Identity, Musicians, Oral History, Race, Riots, San Francisco, Watsonville High School

In this interview, originally recorded in-person, Modesto Orlando Tuzon and Rita Louise Tuzon speak…

Tags: Agriculture, Family, Food, Interracial Relations, Labor, Las Lomas, Leisure, Lewis Road, Manongs, Migration, Mixed-race Identity, Musicians, Oral History, Race, Riots, United Farm Workers, Watsonville High School

In the first part of this three part interview, Paul Phillip DeOcampo speaks with Dr. Kathleen "Kat"…

Tags: Aromas, Canneries, Hawai'i, J.J. Crosetti Ranch, Labor, Leisure, Marriage, Migration, Mixed-race Identity, Oral History

In the second part of this three part interview, Paul Phillip DeOcampo speaks with Dr. Kathleen…

Tags: Aromas, Family, Interracial Relations, Labor, Leisure, Marriage, Migration, Mixed-race Identity, Oral History, Riots

In this interview, originally recorded over Zoom, Raymond “Ray” Gonzalez speaks with Watsonville is…

Tags: Adopted Family, Alaska, Canneries, Community, Cook, Family, Hawai'i, Immigration, Labor Camp, Las vegas, Leisure, Mixed-race Identity, Occupied Philippines, Religion, Salinas, Stoop Labor, Texas, Watsonville