Ross Eric Gibson is a columnist at The Mercury News. He explores a diverse range of topics including culture and society, arts and entertainment, and environmental issues, with a particular focus on the intersection of agriculture, climate change, and tourism. Ross's work has been featured in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and MSN.
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Ross Eric Gibson primarily focuses on the local history and cultural events of Santa Cruz, California. His coverage has a strong emphasis on investment analysis and evolving stories, suggesting he may be interested in pitches that offer new perspectives or updates on historical events or landmarks in the region.
Given his focus on local history and cultural events, Ross would likely be responsive to pitches from historians, scholars, or individuals with deep knowledge of Santa Cruz's past. Pitches offering insights into historical developments related to Santa Cruz’s landmarks and culture might align well with his coverage.
If you have expertise in Santa Cruz's history or are closely involved with local cultural events, Ross Eric Gibson could be an ideal journalist to reach out to for featuring your insights within his writing.
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By: Ross Eric Gibson
One morning in 1875, the Pescadero Stage Coach was waiting in front of Wm. Anthony's Tinwares Shop at the foot of Mission Hill Grade. Billy Bias, the whip, was wiping the dust off the upholstered seats in the coach when a man with his young son emerge
Capitola is about to get a female surfer sculpture, so here is a history of Santa Cruz County women surfers.Santa Cruz is the first mainland surfing culture known outside of Hawaii. In 1885, three royal Hawaiian princes named David,…
By: Ross Eric Gibson
President Theodore Roosevelt scheduled a visit to Santa Cruz for May 8, 1903, and townsfolk now saw the waterfront's barnlike architecture and weed-choked vacant lots and decided some quick improvements were needed. They
By: Ross Eric Gibson
On May 13, 1789, California's Spanish Governor Pedro Fages, sent a letter marked “Confidential” to Comandante Jose Arguello at the San Francisco presidio. Fages cautioned that a vessel named “Columbia”, under protection of the U.S. President George Washington, was moving
By: Ross Eric Gibson
Austin D. Houghton, and later his son-in-law Lee Dill Esty, and his partner C.J. Ryland, had interesting architectural careers that led to Santa Cruz. Austin D. Houghton was born in 1865 and grew up on a farm in Fort Fairfield, Maine, with brothers Emmons, George
Local History columnist Ross Eric Gibson writes about the journey of Sir Francis Drake.
By: Ross Eric Gibson
A pioneer town was only as good as its number of doctors, their skill and proximity. And so it was with early Santa Cruz. Henry Skinner came to Santa Cruz in 1868
By: Ross Eric Gibson
Jose Antonio Robles came to Branciforte as one of nine “convict settlers,” jailed for petty crimes. He was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1775 and was a 22-year-old mining laborer in Thaltenango. He married Rosalia Melopez, who bore their first child, Inez, in Mexico before the voyage to B
By: Ross Eric Gibson
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Historians Ross Gibson and Jay Topping pose in front of the 1860s Wells Fargo Stage Coach at Scotts Valley's 50th birthday. (Contributed — Eric Taylor and L.L. Maloney)
By: Ross Eric Gibson
