Josephine Turcot had been escorted to her coronation as Water Carnival Queen by a suite of handmaidens. On her journey to Palo Alto to enroll in Stanford, the following September, her retinue consisted of only one lady—her Aunt Catherine. Upon her return to Santa Cruz, Mrs. Logan plunged into a new project--helping to host the Grand Council of the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society.
If the Judge and Mrs. Logan had been as busy as usual, Brookdale might not have happened. Unseated in the 1896 election, James Harvey Logan could not return to his previous job as bank president because a close friend was doing it. Meanwhile, the former Catherine Murphy was experiencing a serious case of empty nest syndrome.
A project to construct sidewalks, curb ramps, driveways and retaining walls on Highway 9 between Graham Hill Road and the San Lorenzo Valley schools...