On this day--exactly 219 years later--a group from Glendale College
joined around 500 other Southern Californians in retracing the pobladores'
footsteps.
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Before there was a Los Angeles, there were 11 families, recruited by
the Kingdom of Spain to begin a new pueblo in remote Alta California. These
44 people were simple, hearty and rugged. On Sept. 4, 1781 they left the
relative comfort of the San Gabriel Mission on a 9-mile trek to the site
of their new pueblo.
On this day--exactly 219 years later--a group from Glendale College
joined around 500 other Southern Californians in retracing the pobladores'
footsteps.
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Apparently, the pobladores were early risers. We gathered
at the San Gabriel Mission shortly before dawn, got our free t-shirts,
were blessed by the mission priest, got photographed by local TV news crews,
and headed out onto Mission Road with police escort at the crack of dawn.
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Heading out from the mission, I found myself behind Pol
Sci 106 student Vartges Essagholian.
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