The Watsonville series offers a public forum to hash out issues of current affairs, contemporary art and the future of the Pajaro Valley. For Tarlen, the telling is just as important as what's told, more than just a dry textbook timeline of facts and dates. A lot of people don't think WWII and the 1960s is history. Partly it's because of human error, but also because perspectives change and artifacts are scarce. Tracking Red Cross records and studying oral histories is sometimes the only way to get bits of information on marginalized sections of the population.
History is also hard to pin down to a date, a time, a place.
Santa Cruz County has been influenced and affected by legendary artists and thinkers.