Palomar Mountain News

From: CLIFF KELLOGG

The Forest Service has scheduled to burn piles on the East Grade around MM 1.8 starting at 9:00 am tomorrow.  Smoke may be visible.

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Such a beautiful view of our snow clouds over Palomar this morning.  Thanks to former weekender Sheila Robinson’s camera, from her work-out view in Valley Center.  Here’s hoping for a lot more clouds heading our way!!!  (Just a dusting last night….)

Most of us have been keeping an eye on the weather links and wish the east coast would share just a little of their snow and rain with us!!!  A few days ago I noticed  that we had a 20% chance of snow tonight… then 50%… now there are snow flakes all over the forecast!  Hope they have it right this time:  http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=sgx&smap=1&textField1=33.32278&textField2=-116.87778#.Uu5xYWeA2M8

So curious if any of you might recognize someone in this photo.  Found it when cleaning out a cabin.  Nothing written on the back.  Thanks!

The Palomar Mountain Fire Department will be participating in the county-wide Love Your Heart Program on February 14th.  Residents are welcome to stop by the fire station anytime from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm to have their blood pressure checked by the on-duty crew.

Cliff Kellogg

Station Chief

Palomar Mountain Volunteer Fire Department

21610 Crestline Road

Palomar Mountain, CA.  92060

Office: (760) 742-3701

Fax: (760) 742-0574

KJ6MTA

Be on the lookout!  Three Mountain lions were in a yard on the north side of Crestline this morning about 7 am.  They got away with chickens in their mouths.  The mountain lions were very aggressive and not afraid of the people trying to scare them away from their livestock. If you see the Lions, you can call Fish and Game at  858-467-4201.

Have you read Peter’s book on George Doane?  He made it public e-book, available for all to read, with a click of your mouse!

I’m not even finished yet, but I had a few questions for the author!  First, I thought we should have a photo of where Peter has been spending most of his life since he tackled this project July of 2013. Here you see him perusing some Robert Asher photos, including some of Mr. Doane, of course. Peter pointed out the pink Palomar Mountain Summit Grove felt pennant by the light on his  desk… it’s part of his Palomar Mountain collection.  (Double-click the photo to enlarge).

That manuscript was countless hours of work… the more I read, the more I realize that Peter really invested a tremendous amount of time.

Peter said that he visited the various historical collections in San Diego (San Diego History Center; Escondido Public Library Pioneer Room; Escondido History Center; SD City Library downtown). He searched old newspapers online in two sources.  He used ancestry.com, searched Google, and Escondido newspapers on microfilm since they are not online.

A great find was descendants of the siblings of George Doane’s wife in Louisiana!  Peter talked to them via phone and then via email with a key family genealogy person to get Hayes family information. Peter shared with them what he had learned. They knew nothing about their family members’ time in California other than that Doane’s wife was married to someone named Doane and moved out to Palomar, then moved to Imperial Valley, and then divorced.  They didn’t know that mother, brother and sister moved out here, following along with Doane’s wife, and didn’t know a lot else about Doane’s wife. So blanks were filled in.

Significantly the Louisiana Hayes family descendants did not have a photo of Doane’s wife Irene (the great aunt of the Louisiana woman with whom Peter has been conversing).  You see that photo in the Doane biography, which was in an Escondido collection.

Even better, Peter surfaced a photo of the woman’s grandfather Leonidas in Doane’s cabin. The photo did not have him identified, but his Louisiana connection had the photo you see of Leonidas at age 34.  Peter had that Doane cabin photo with Leonidas at age 20. He image-edited the heads out of both photos, made them the same size, and combined them into one image to compare facial features of Leonidas fourteen years apart. Facial features matched in his estimation, and the Louisiana relatives agree.

She told Peter the Doane story was a big hit at the Hayes holiday family gathering.

I had to ask Peter, “Who took the photos in the cemeteries?”  So curious.

The photo of Baby G Doane’s cemetery marker in Valley Center was taken by Peter-the-Author, himself.  He read in an old newspaper item that the baby was buried in Valley Center, so he walked through the cemetery there until he found his marker. Then Peter put his info into findagrave.com

The photo of John Doane, and family cemetery markers, were also taken by Peter. When he was visiting his mother in King City, Peter was twelve miles south of Greenfield, California, where John Doane is buried. Peter is an avid cyclists so rode his bike to the Greenfield cemetery, walked around and found the graves.  Photos of their markers were already in findagrave.com but Peter went and took his own for fun.

The photo of Charles Doane’s cemetery marker came about because Peter made a cemetery finding request on findagrave.com. Someone helpful in the area then went to the cemetery and found Charles Doane’s cemetery marker laying in a rough state, and photographed it for Peter.

And, for all of us!

Thank you so much Peter!

Bonnie-on-the-Mountain

See links to Peter’s latest book on George Doane

What a gift to all who love Palomar Mountain!  When this book-on-line of  George Doane’s history, arrived from Peter, I had to open and start reading immediately.  Known as one of the colorful characters of the early days on Palomar, I found it so interesting!  Twenty minutes later I scrolled to the bottom of the pdf to see how many pages!  Eighty four, well researched, and documented pages, with photos, and wonderful can’t-put-it-down stories.  I asked Peter to send us a photo of “the author”.   Thank you Peter!!! Many thanks to former cabin owners, Peter, and his wife Kathy, who supported her husband with his quest in writing about one of our early Palomar Pioneers, George Doane.  I think it needs to be published!    Thank you Peter!  With sincere gratitude from all the Mountain folks, Bonnie Phelps

From: Peter Brueggeman
Subject: George Doane biography available

I’ve researched and written a biography of “George Edwin Doane of Palomar Mountain”  and a PDF is available via direct URL at

http://peterbrueggeman.com/palomarhistory/doane.pdf

It is also listed/linked in the BOOKS section of my Palomar Mountain History website at http://peterbrueggeman.com/palomarhistory

My Doane biography aims to be comprehensive, and I researched materials held by the San Diego History Center, Escondido History Center, Escondido Public Library Pioneer Room, Montana State University Library, plus other resources and people, which are fully referenced. Thank you to those providing assistance. This Doane biography will be revised as new information becomes available to me. If you have material on George Doane, specifically recollections of those who knew or interacted with him, or photographs of him other than what you see in this biography, I’m very interested in seeing them.

…. Peter Brueggeman

4peebee@peterbrueggeman.com

In the fall, a film crew with Aztec dancers and vocalists were on the mountain shooting a promo video for Misa Azteca. The Short Promo is completed!  Pretty impressive.  Click to view.

Misa Azteca, a modern day, 9 movement symphonic oratorio.  The movements are based on the visceral rhythms of Aztec drumming performed with the full power of a Symphonic Orchestra, Choir, Soloists and Aztec dancers and instruments.

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See also Film Crew on Palomar Mountain