Below is an item from the San Diego Union of February 11, 1904:
The Stowe Literary Society met every other Saturday for a number of years at the schoolhouse in the town of Stowe. The presentation of music, discussion of the works of noted authors, and readings from a journal written by local residents on life in the town were part of the regular meeting agenda. Reading about it now makes me think of it as an early form of social media, in real time as opposed to online, and showing an interest in facts and learning.
Note also that among the musicians contributing music were two people “present from Foster.” Foster, like Stowe, was another San Diego County town which once thrived but then disappeared.
To find out more about such places, join me for my Oasis talk, “Lost Towns of San Diego County,” on Friday, January 17th, at 1 p.m. at the Oasis Grossmont Lifelong Learning Center. Click on the link below to sign up:
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