tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107652097551453698.post4174006758923475736..comments2023-10-26T05:45:11.938-07:00Comments on Eastsider on the Go: The cultural and environmental legacy of an Occidental College poetThe Eastsider LAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924059249934261797noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6107652097551453698.post-5620902525850892742009-10-09T16:25:32.128-07:002009-10-09T16:25:32.128-07:00Why should people in LA be connected to Jeffers? ...Why should people in LA be connected to Jeffers? Let's try to raise awareness that his education and early inspiration for writing was Highland Park and the Arroyo Seco corridor! <br /><br />His parents built a house on Avenue 57, he attended Occidental College (when it was in Highland Park). Any wonder that he went on to build his home with local materials... because that was the Arroyo Culture influencing him right here in Los Angeles -- handbuilt structures by Charles Fletcher Lummis' El Alisal or Clyde Browne's Abbey San Encino (both within a short walk of the Highland Park Oxy campus).<br /><br />He walked the hills of the Arroyo and one would assume made a strong connection with the land while writing his early poetry.<br /><br />Let's celebrate that this was the part of Los Angeles that shaped Jeffers to become a great California poet of the western landscape, just as it always has for many artists of all disciplines.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04322555342519906461noreply@blogger.com