Sacred Ground

Ernest Marquez can remember back eight decades of joyfully playing in his family’s cemetery. “I remember looking at the old wooden statue of San Lorenzo’s face and feeling he was looking back at me; the statue had glass eyes then, and they seemed so real to me.” These days, Marquez is an 85-year-old historian and that cemetery is a historic landmark in the middle of California’s Santa Monica Canyon amidst some choice real estate. It is his dream to secure a proper access to the ceme