100: Earthquakes, Pirates and the Later Years of San Juan Capistrano with author Eric Plunkett
In part two of this interview, Eric Plunkett describes how Mission San Juan Capistrano’s history unfolds through upheaval and endurance: early conflict and a thwarted revolt, the Acjachemen community’s work and resilience, the rise and collapse of the Great Stone Church, the raids of the pirate Hippolyte Bouchard, secularization and the political changes that reshaped the mission and its lands.
00:44 — The mission’s troubled beginnings
01:48 — Conflict, deaths, and a planned revolt
03:18 — The 1778 revolt and its causes
06:12 — Acjachemen resilience
07:33 — The Great Stone Church project…
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