UCSB Digitizes Long-Forgotten Carpinteria Newspaper
Copies of ‘Carpinteria Chronicle’ Reveal Depression-Era Attitudes and Controversies
Cleaning out a basement, attic, or garage is tedious work. But the drudgery is leavened by the hope that you might just find a piece of treasure ― a long-forgotten object that evokes the distant past.
That’s what happened to Carpinteria native Joe Escareno Jr. in April 2018. He and his sister were cleaning out their aunt’s house when they came across a bound stack of old newspapers. Resisting an initial impulse to toss them in the trash, Escareno called his childhood friend Jim Campos, a retired school administrator who has contributed to several volumes of Carpinteria history.
Campos was unenthusiastic at first, assuming they were copies of the well-known weekly newspaper the Carpinteria Herald. “But when he started describing them, I realized this was something different,” Campos recalled.
