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By Lisa Duncan Art, conservation, and a fresh perspective on one of the South Coast’s most beloved landmarks converged Wednesday evening at Santa Barbara Fine Art Gallery, where an ocean of guests gathered for an open-house reception benefiting Heal the Ocean. The evening’s centerpiece was a donated painting of Rincon Point by renowned landscape artist […]

There are places where you immediately sense that something important is being built, even before a single dish is served. On a clear Friday afternoon in Carpinteria, I walked the fields of Rincon Hill Farm as lettuces unfurled in jewel-toned rows, avocado trees punctuated the landscape, and pollinators traced quiet patterns through the air. The […]

It was Shuku when a band of nearly 300 Chumash lived on the point of land that today marks the boundary between Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. It became Rancheria San Mateo after the Spanish settled the area in 1782. It became El Rincon (the corner) after the Mexican governor of Alta California granted the […]