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Wine is hardly a new phenomenon in the U.S. The Spanish missionaries who brought European civilization to the New World also brought European grapes. Before the U.S. was a nation, Franciscan Padre Junipero Serra, founder of nine Spanish missions in California, was making wine in San Diego. After the Gold Rush in 1849, a Hungarian adventurer named Agoston Haraszthy brought 200,000 premium European grapevines to California. In the 1880s an epidemic of the root disease, phylloxera, wiped out nearly all of Europe's vineyards. Thousands of American rootstocks, with their phylloxera-resistant native roots, were shipped over...
...Junipero Serra Boulevard...
...Vogel to Livingston: "Moral purity" trap. 202 Junipero Serra Boulevard Stanford, California 94305 August...
...afternoon and painted themselves luridly before going out in the evening. When they disliked someone, they cut out his heart and sent the rest of him back to his family. This picture describes, in handsome color and costume, an early attempt to civilize the region, as made by Father Junipero Serra, the first missionary to the Southern Californians...
Haring's award is one made annually by the Academy of American Franciscan History in memory of Fr. Junipero Serra, a missionary to southern California. Past recipients of the award are Sumner Wells, ex-United States Under-Secretary of State, and Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet...