Watsonville is in the Heart: Community Digital Archive

Loren Cawaling interviewed by Dr. Steven McKay Part 1 of 2

In part one of the interviews, originally recorded in person, Loren Cawaling speaks with Dr. Steve…

In part two of the interview, originally recorded in person, Loren Cawaling speaks with Dr. Steve…

Tags: Agriculture, Courtship, Family, Gardening, Labor Camps, Manongs, Oral History, Photograph

In this interview, originally recorded in person, Lorraine “Rain” Sipin Bongolan speaks with…

In this interview, originally recorded via Zoom, Lydia Tumbaga Brumblay speaks with Watsonville is…

Tags: Fishing, Hawai’i, Interracial Relations, Leisure, Migration, Musicians, Oral History, Portland, Race, San Francisco, Seattle, Vietnam War, Watsonville High School

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

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

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 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 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