Mr. Abeel's family moved to Santa Cruz from Kansas City in the 1880s where his father was a newspaper editor with Col. Van Horn at the time of the Civil War. He also was a journeyman writer at one time and new Mark Twain. The house they built was at the bottom of the stone steps from the business section of town up to the Mission at 121 Locust Street. His father also built the Sea Beach Hotel overlooking the beach. That hotel burned down later and the house was sold to a buyer. They moved to Ben Lomond in 1890. Their land stretched from Love Creek to Newell Creek and was a large orchard. Near their property was a railroad that used to bring logs down the hill for milling. he remembers the cars speeding and screeching down the hill with the logs before horses pulled the cars back up. Also shares memories of picking wild blackberries and the narrow gauge train that used to go from Felton down to Santa Cruz and run underneath the hill where the church was.