Children of Aliso

<p class=ql-align-justify>CHILDREN OF ALISO is a memoir of the pioneering Thurston family who settled and homesteaded 152 acres of land in Laguna Beach's Aliso Canyon in 1871 transforming its barren wilderness into a sustainable farm. It narrates the family's personal stories from initial isolation to early Laguna neighbors through the 1880s real-estate boom and bust and 1890s economic downturns. Detailed descriptions of the region's flora fauna and beautiful landscapes provide a backdrop to accounts of their daily lives relationships and hardships. It recounts their lives on the Aliso farm and the early years of school and work opportunities in neighboring communities.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Harriet Thurston Buchheim Mather one of fifteen Thurston children describes CHILDREN OF ALISO as the story of a single family of pioneers taken from among the many who formed an integral part of the romantic Southland in days that are forever gone-gone not simply from the standpoint of the passing of time  but of the vanishing of an era.</span></p><p><br></p>