Santa Barbara, How It Was in 1915

Betsy J. Green has been a writer for more than 25 years. As a freelancer, she contributed articles to newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad. She specializes in writing about local history, architecture, and the environment. She researched and wrote about the history of more than 85 homes, and was responsible for nominating five properties to the National Register of Historic Places.

Green is a former associate editor of Reader’s Digest and staff editor of World Book Encyclopedia.

She writes a history & humor column called Way Back When for the Santa Barbara website edhat.com, and a history column for The Mesa Paper.

Forthcoming Books – available in 2016

MesaPEDIA – the story of the early years in Santa Barbara’s Mesa neighborhood, when the Mesa was “a wide, waving stretch of emerald fields.”

Way Back When: Santa Barbara in 1916 – the 3rd book in the continuing series of tales of interesting and humorous events in Santa Barbara 100 years ago. Based on stories in the local newspapers. "I read it in the newspaper, so you know it's true!"