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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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A month at a rented apartment in San Francisco Swamiji did not seem to be very comfortable and free at the ‘Home of Truth’ at the Pine Street because of its high occupancy that was not exactly …

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Swami Vivekananda set foot for the first time in the Bay Area of Northern California on 22nd February 1900, alighting from a Southern Pacific train at Oakland mole. Alice, who had come a week …

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