Park
Ellen Browning Scripps Park
1100 Coast Blvd, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Cliffside lawn of wind-bent cypress trees over La Jolla Cove, with sea lions barking on the rocks below.
This guide to Ellen Browning Scripps Park in La Jolla opens with a puzzle: the park carries her name, yet she never paid for an inch of this land. It traces her path from a London childhood to a Detroit newsroom, and the fortune she quietly built helping her half-brother's newspaper empire survive, giving nearly all of it away to hospitals, schools and research institutes while avoiding the spotlight. You'll also hear how speculators set this bluff aside as public land back in 1887, decades before the city renamed it for her in 1927.
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