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A notable time during the Swami’s stay in California was when he along with a group of friends and admirers retreated to a forest area, about thirty miles north of San Francisco in the Marine County. …

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On 11th April, after having their dinner at their Turk Street Apartment in San Francisco, Swamiji, Alice Hansborough, and Mr. Aspinall took the streetcar and then the ferry across the Bay to what …

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Frank Rhodehamel was a young man in his late twenties living with his wife in Oakland. He has written elaborate memoirs of meeting Swamiji in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also took very detailed …

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Tom Allan, about whom it was mentioned in the last chapter with regard to the incident of the ship-launch, was a Scotsman and a marine engineer. He worked as draughtsman in the Risden Iron and …

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It was in Bay Area that Swami Vivekananda came in touch with a few such persons whose life would then be spent in the glow and grace they received through the time spent with him. Among them were Ida …

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Alice Hansborough’s memoirs are a treat to read not just because we get to know so much about Vivekananda’s work in the American west coast but also because we come to know of the range of moods and …

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