Watsonville

“It wasn't a bad price for the money I made as a plumber in Watsonville," he tells me.”

Crossing Over: A Mexican Family On The Migrant Trail

“Watsonville is one of the central locales along the Pajaro River in OCTOBER LIGHT.”

Wherefore Art Thou, Poet? : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

“It was in Watsonville where one relative would show me grafted trees, bandaged in gauze, in his backyard, and I would wonder if the branches were healing from some injury.”

August 2006

“In suburban L.A., we hardly had any relatives, but here in Watsonville we were surrounded by kinfolk.”

August 2006

“I tell myself if I ever made enough money, I would love to buy a second home in Watsonville where I could write and rest.”

August 2006

“For even with the few years my father had lived in Watsonville, he understood it.”

August 2006

“The Redman Foundation was organized locally in Watsonville in 1999 to save and restore the "weathered Victorian house" you described in this article.”

THREE DEGREES OF SEPARATION: Sentimental Journey to Watsonville

“This is Reyna's life: she is physically present in Watsonville but conjuring up Cherán at her altars and in her meals and in the lessons of tradition she teaches her kids, even as influences of their new home inexorably pull at them.”

The Hearts of Strangers