Commentary: Jon Christensen, the Man Behind Boom — A Journal of California
From the Los Angeles Times, in a column by Patt Morrison:
“A hundred years ago, California yanked a water-engineering wonder out of a desert, so why can’t we conjure a thoughtful ink-and-paper magazine out of the era of digital publishing? The watery miracle worker was William Mulholland, whose spectacular and politically divisive Los Angeles Aqueduct opened Nov. 5, 1913, and the magazine is the redesigned Boom: A Journal of California, a UC Press quarterly that takes the aqueduct centenary as the theme for its relaunch issue.”
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The Water Education Foundation’s Aquapedia, an online water encyclopedia, includes William Mulholland among its Historical Water People bios.