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Spared by the Eaton Fire, cemetery hopes to play active role in Altadena's next chapter
When the Eaton Fire erupted, the Mountain View Cemetery and Mortuary in Altadena faced a rare struggle: racing to save ...
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Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire last week but ...
Column: Did a famous grave in the Altadena hills survive the fires?
Altadena resident and filmmaker Pablo Miralles had been scheduled to debut a 20-minute documentary on Owen Brown. Miralles' ...
Los Angeles Times20d
Opinion: Beautiful Altadena’s one-of-a-kind town was destroyed. But we can rebuild
Legendary sci-fi imagineer of dystopian futures Octavia Butler, fittingly buried in Altadena’s Mountain View cemetery, would have known what to say about the sudden wiping away of so many homes ...
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A storied Black community fears wildfires will claim its history
Altadena, the Los Angeles suburb leveled by the Eaton Fire, has a thriving Black community that bought homes in the civil ...
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For historically Black Altadena, the combined wildfire loss of generational wealth and personal heirlooms is indescribable
Butler died in 2006; she’s buried at the Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum in the heart of Altadena. Although the Eaton Fire tore through the town, much of the cemetery remained unscathed.