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KEN KRAMER'S ABOUT SAN DIEGO: Lost Centennial Cannon & Early Baseball History

Host Ken Kramer shares the story of how San Diego’s historic centennial cannon was found, restored, and brought back to use after being missing for decades.
Courtesy of Ken Kramer
Host Ken Kramer shares the story of how San Diego’s historic centennial cannon was found, restored, and brought back to use after being missing for decades.

Airs Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Monday, March 16 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2

On this episode, host Ken Kramer explores San Diego’s centennial cannon, which was lost for years, but now it’s been found and restored. How did it happen?

On this episode, meet a mountain man who’s built a fort from the 1840s in Alpine, Calif.
Courtesy of Ken Kramer
On this episode, meet a mountain man who’s built a fort from the 1840s in Alpine, Calif.

We meet a man who loves the life and history of the fiercely independent mountain men of the 1840s, and has built a trading post and fort in Alpine to pay tribute to their world.

It’s like going 180 years back in time. We see one man’s recreation of a mountain man outpost right here in San Diego County.
Courtesy of Ken Kramer
It’s like going 180 years back in time. We see one man’s recreation of a mountain man outpost right here in San Diego County.

We take a look back at San Diego’s early baseball history, and remember a time when the game was much more civilized and less competitive than today.

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Then we visit the Stein Farm, a living history museum and farm in National City that has remain largely unchanged in over a century. Viewer photos and memories and more!

Mrs. Stein and four of the five kids and the family dog circa 1900 in front of the farm house.
The Stein Family Farm and Christopher Pro, Caretaker/Historian
Mrs. Stein and four of the five kids and the family dog circa 1900 in front of the farm house.
Current photo of the Stein Family Farm - a Living History Farm Museum in National City, Calif., with a Victorian farmhouse and 100+year-old barn.
The Stein Family Farm and Christopher Pro, Caretaker/Historian
Current photo of the Stein Family Farm - a Living History Farm Museum in National City, Calif., with a Victorian farmhouse and 100+year-old barn.

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