Image: vintage comic book
Richard Henry Dana – SB's Best PR Guy
Dateline: January 1925
Our local paper looked back at Santa Barbara 90 years earlier to January 14, 1835, when future author Richard Henry Dana had arrived in Santa Barbara.
"Richard Henry Dana wrote so interestingly of ... Santa Barbara and its shoreline that his book is found in public and private libraries all over the world ... we probably never will succeed in putting out another piece of publicity that will prove as enduring as 'Two Years Before the Mast.'"
The article suggested that a memorial be placed in his honor on the wall of the Casa de la Guerra in the Street in Spain. (Interesting thought, eh?)