Describe why the author believes that Californians possess a "love affair" with their own history.
The author believes that Californians possess a “love affair” with the history of their state, because of the extensive amount of effort dedicated to preserve historical sites, gather records, and maintain stories about California’s proud past and its honorable men. The author states that Californian historians have been writing about its history for close to 150 years and have been preserving historical sites and buildings for over 125 years. This leads to many generations hearing the romantic stories about sites and people. Historians have been successful to portray California as having an amorous history and showing history as if it was a movie plot. For example, California’s history is full of Spanish missions, sites that need to restore and preserved,
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Many of these individuals could be considered the “fathers” of this unique and beautiful land. The author provides further evidence as to why this is a love affair. The proof is a long list of efforts done by Californians to maintain their history alive. Museums, state and local historical societies, publications, journals, complete neighborhoods restored and preserved and an impressive amount of register landmarks, parks, archeological sites, all make California the most history-conscious state in the nation.
Then, describe what the "traditional view" of California history has been.
The traditional view of California's history is that California is a romantic state, portrayed with its historic homes, restored landmarks, and majestic missions surrounded by lavished gardens, water fountains. Driving around the city if California, one can see streets all bearing the name of the father’s of the state or their city. Writers have had close to 150 years to craft a luxurious