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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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While he was still at Mrs. Blodgett's home, Alice Hansborough had once suggested that he come and stay with them. The Meads were a family of modest means and lived in a rented house in the Lincoln …
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As the Los Angeles work came to a halt, it was suggested to Swamiji that he should move his work to Pasadena. There he had been in contact with one Mrs. Emeline Bowler, a very wealthy woman, who was …
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On the evening of Saturday, December 23rd, Swamiji along with Professor Baumgardt, Miss Macleod, and Alice, went to watch a play at the Los Angeles Theatre on the city’s Broadway. This was no ordinary …
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Just like it happened in many other places in America - the Leggets and Mrs Bull on the East Coast and the Hale family in Chicago - the blessed privilege of playing a special role in Vivekananda's …