During the summer, several people spend time pretending as if the year is about 1900 on the Spooner Ranch, at what is now Montana de Oro State Park. They reveal, in sometimes subtle humor, what it was like to live more than a century ago along the Central Coast. I discovered that, as "living history" actors, the "Pecho Players" will not break character.

To make some surprisingly easy changes to the portrait, origionally photographed in color, I used the Macintosh program, iPhoto. I called up a few commands: sepia tone, edge blur, and sharpening, to create a stylized impression of a photograph made more than a century ago.