DOWNTOWN PASADENA'S EARLY ARCHITECTURE Kids escaping war and poverty in

escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America

Simple to make

driven by possibility and haunted by dreams deferred

Over the course of a year

Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of the award-winning science-fiction writer and “MacArthur Genius” Octavia E

DOWNTOWN PASADENA'S EARLY ARCHITECTURE Kids escaping war and poverty inAt sunset, the San Gabriel Mountains form a rosy sculptural backdrop for Pasadena, a city of stately street trees and lush gardens. Attracted by a paradisiacal climate, health seekers and wealthy Easterners flocked to its resort hotels the Green, the Maryland, the Huntington, the Painter, the Raymond and built grand residences along Orange Grove and Grand Avenues. Scores of commercial and industrial buildings rose downtown, punctuated by public works,