History in Our Everyday Lives

Notes

1. In French, “prune” is the word for plum, and “pruneau” is the word for prune. Agen is the region in France from which the plum came.
2. Interview with Ralph Pearce, July 31, 2015.
3. “School Profile.” William C. Overfelt High School. http://www.wcohs.schoolloop.com/SchoolProfileb
4. “Assimilation.” Wikipedia. Accessed July 26, 2015.
5. Jules Ferry, “Speech Before the French Camber of Deputies, March 28, 1884,” Discours et Opinions de Jules Ferry. (Paris: Armand Colin & Cie., 1897), https://web.viu.ca/davies/H479B.Imperialism.Nationalism/Ferry.Fr.imperialism.1884.htm
6. Laurie Collier Hillstrom, “French Americans,” http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Du-Ha/French-Americans.html.
7. Ibid
8. Ibid
9. "blood-stained hands to protect his cursed gold." Sophie-Laurence Lamontagne, Canadiens français et Québécois en Californie. (Québec: Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2002) 26.
10. É.-Z. Massicotte, “Nos chansons historiques : la recherché de l’or en Californie”, Bulletin des recherches historiques, 148. General translation: “Listen, I will sing to you a song of truth, speaking to you about California, sad country. Is it necessary to leave one’s wife and children for money! For such a short life, what foolishness. When the hour of the mass arrives, we see them in the saloons, playing cards, drinking, laughing. Oh, should one leave his wife and kids for money!? For such a short life, what foolishness!”
11. Thomas J. Shepherd and Clarice Mondo Cooks, A Century of Pioneers: The California Pelliers (North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014), 5-6.
12. Bill Foley, The Story of Louis Pellier. Edited segment from “A Fortune in Two Trunks,” 1951, https://vimeo.com/31450269.
13. P. Hedrick, “The Plums of New York,” Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, v. 21 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1909) 31, https://books.google.com/books?id=dE47AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=prunes+at+the+California+State+Fair+in+1863&source=bl&ots=awl2lDw_Tj&sig=NamhcYRFt924sBIwz2xRntoXV6Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAGoVChMI2ayGt-GnxwIVRAySCh0A3A68#v=onepage&q=prunes%20at%20the%20California%20State%20Fair%20in%201863&f=false
14. Shepherd and Cooks. A Century of Pioneers. 20-21.
15. Shepherd and Cooks. A Century of Pioneers. 19.
16. Ibid
17. Jim Zetterquist, “The Pillier Jinx,” Trailblazer 53, no. 1 (2012): 9.
18. Sara L. Hensley, Approved Memorandum, August 2, 2005, http://www3.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Agenda/08_16_05docs/081605_02.06.pdf
19. Leonard McKay, “Louis Pellier,” sanjoseinside, 2006, http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2006/09/25/louis_pellier/
20. Foley, The Story of Louis Pellier, 1951, https://vimeo.com/31450269.
21. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) 19-20.
22. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture, 20.
23. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture, 21.
24. Ibid
25. “An Analysis of the Historical and Architectural Significance of the Almaden Winery Site,” last modified May 4, 1988, http://www.awna.org/history/Analysis_Historical_and_Architecutral/analysis_of_the_historica_&_architectural_significance.htm
26. Ibid
27. Daniel Lévy, Les Français en Californie (San Francisco: Grégoire, Tauzy et Cie, 1885) IX. “I tried to reconstruct the past of our colony and to expose it, to the best of my ability, in this series of sketches, imperfect no doubt, but traced with meticulous good faith.”
28. Lévy, Les Français en Californie, 14-16.
29. Lévy, Les Français en Californie, 364.
30. Edwin Bryant, Voyage en Californie (Bruxelles: Delevignge et Callewaert, 1849) 39-43.
31. David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty, Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You (Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2010) 61.