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My Heart Is a Stone That Bleeds
My Heart Is A Stone That Bleeds is Karl P. Whitehead's personal account of growing up with the alcoholic legacy created by successive generations of alcoholics. The story chronicles the difficulties presented when a non-drinking child tries to break free from the abuse of the alcoholic and the denial of the co-dependent family unit. The book contains many vignettes of a very personal nature outlining the unpredictable aspects of the alcoholic household. Explored among these are the life long effects of child abuse and denial that shatter attempts at healthy future relationships. All is not lost when hope and courage prevail and the process of recovery for the non-drinking abused child is sustained through vision, candor and diligence.
Brentwood
The beautiful Brentwood area of Contra Costa County is the oldest continuously populated community in California inland from the great coastal centers. Californios eschewed this challenging portion of the Central Valley, so pioneering physician John Marsh established a permanent settlement here in 1837 at his Rancho Los Meganos. Soon, the burgeoning viniculture, wheat, orchard, and cattle operations attracted many Gold Rush miners back to their original agricultural callings, now in the California Delta. The 1860s arrival of British agribusiness concern Balfour Guthrie Investment Company soon established the largest grain-export and fruit-packing venture in the West. Brentwood Township, esta...
Concord
Located in central Contra Costa County in the shadow of Mount Diablo, the land that includes Concord was originally a Mexican land grant given to Don Salvio Pacheco in 1834. The original Mexican land grant families of Concord were quickly supplanted by American settlers during the Gold Rush in the 1840s and 1850s. The original Spanish name for the town, Todos Santos, was changed to Concord by the American settlers and their local newspaper, against the wishes of the Pacheco family. The name stuck, and the town became Concord in 1869. Now a town of over 120,000 people, Concord's development is a true American story of Native Americans, Spanish explorers, Mexican Californios, and settlers from across the country and around the world.
East Contra Costa County
Ho for California! The terminus of the first overland immigrant pack train destined for California was John Marsh's adobe, Brentwood. Since 1841, East Contra Costa County has been a grain and fruit basket to the world, a recreational playground for resort living, and a home for health and family life. Its wheat was exported for brewing Guinness beer, and fresh apricots, peaches, and cherries still bring produce fanciers for summer harvest. Weekenders houseboat, wakeboard, and fish through the region's thousands of miles of delta waterways. This sentimental history of the communities of Brentwood, Bethel Island, Byron, Discovery Bay, Knightsen, and Oakley reveals the importance of these California Delta communities in settling and developing the Golden State.
The Corners
In celebration of its 100th anniversary, a brief history of Walnut Creek, California, is told in The Corners. How the city got its name and followed its fated location from a country crossroads in the 1880s to a thriving city of today is related with a fact-filled narrative and archival photographs adapted from the well known chronicle Old Times in Contra Costa by Robert Daras Tatam.
California’s Capitol Corridor
"The "Capitol Corridor" is the name of the Amtrak passenger train route between California's capital, Sacramento, and San Jose, the state's first capital upon admission to the Union in 1850. ... The Capitol Corridor is now an integral part of the transportation scene in Northern California. Since 1991, its equipment and infrastructure have evolved to keep pace with technology as well as the area's dynamic economic and social environment. Author and photographer Matthew Gerald Vurek has produced a geographic pictorial of the quarter-century of changes to the trains and the railroad along the Capitol Corridor."--Page 4 of cover.
