Earthquake Collage, Day 6

Presented below is the sixth day of the Loma Prieta “Earthquake Collage” written by Robert Sward, a poet and novelist, from his work with students and faculty and staff at Cabrillo College. Day 7 will be presented tomorrow.
Sunday, October 22, Day 6
Wake G., and try to get out of bed, but the house is [...]

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Earthquake Collage, Day 4

Presented below is the fourth day of the Loma Prieta “Earthquake Collage” written by Robert Sward, a poet and novelist, from his work with students and faculty and staff at Cabrillo College. Day 6 (there’s no day 5) will be presented Sunday.
Friday, October 20, Day 4
G., seeing that I’m depressed, asks, “What can we [...]

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Earthquake Collage, Day 3

Presented below is the third day of the Loma Prieta “Earthquake Collage” written by Robert Sward, a poet and novelist, from his work with students and faculty and staff at Cabrillo College. Day 4 will be presented tomorrow.
Thursday, October 19, Day 3
Theater director Wilma Marcus says at the moment the quake hit, a student [...]

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Earthquake Collage, Day 2

Presented below is the second day of the Loma Prieta “Earthquake Collage” written by Robert Sward, a poet and novelist, from his work with students and faculty and staff at Cabrillo College. Day 3 will be presented tomorrow.
Wednesday, October 18, Day 2
“No sound is dissonant which tells of life.”– Coleridge
Garbage men arrive at 6 [...]

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Earthquake October 17, 1989

Mom called, Dad is gone. It had only been a few days since I saw him in the hospital. I assured her I would be there as soon as I could get myself ready and find someone to take care of my advertising clients with the Shopper.
The day was a blur of activities, phone calls [...]

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Earthquake Collage

On Sunday, soon after the Santa Cruz Sentinel published its article about this project, Robert Sward, a poet and novelist who’s taught at UC Santa Cruz, Cornell, and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, wrote me about the “Earthquake Collage” he had put together after the Loma Prieta quake. At the time, he was teaching at Cabrillo [...]

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‘89 Earthquake

Just before the earthquake started I was sitting on the edge of our bed on the second floor of our house in Aptos and talking on the telephone to a person in Marin County. Suddenly the house started lurching from side to side and having been through several minor earthquakes since moving to the area [...]

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Earthquake Story

On October 17, 1989, I was working at Heartwood Spa, the beautiful hot tub and garden retreat near Dominican Hospital that has since closed. I was working the desk in the front office, which had originally been a chicken coop in an old Live Oak farm.
Sitting at the small desk heading into the last hour [...]

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31st Floor Downtown SF for the Quake of 89

I was working on the 31st floor of the 101 California Bldg in downtown San Francisco when the earthquake hit. My girlfriend and I both worked for Russian stock brokers, and they had called us in to work their phones that afternoon. We had just caught a bus, and a cable [...]

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My mother, sister, and myself had sat down to an early dinner not much before the earthquake hit. My father was away on business, as it happened, for a couple of days. If I recall correctly, dinner was mac and cheese, and being a quick eater I’d finished my dinner and my drink [...]

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