'We probably experienced as much freedom as any human being in the history of the world.'
On a sun-flecked September morning, along the valley floor of a lush redwood ravine just miles from San Francisco, I’m led into a small wooden classroom by a bright-eyed former treehouse-dweller, anarchist and community leader named Esperanza Surls. Inside, a small group of students aged 10-14 deconstructs Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Outside, a creek babbles under ancient, towering trees.
Over its storied history, this East Bay settlement has been a wild lumber town; a battleground between suburbia and nature; a drug-fueled biker hangout; and the site of an almighty explosion that some presumed was the start of nuclear war. Most people in the Bay Area don’t know it exists, which is how many of the residents want it. Here’s the story of the little town over the hill, all but lost to time — Canyon, California.
In the 1850s, those giant sempervirens, some more than 1,000 years old, were decimated, without a thought for conservation, to help build the metropolis of San Francisco, and later Oakland growing over the hill, in the wake of the Gold Rush. It’s said that it was wood from a redwood in this valley that was used to build Mission San Jose long before San Francisco was founded.
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