Snippets from Spain

My affinity for Spain began in my home state

I arrived in northern California for an annual meeting of the Eschen clan, relatives of my father’s grandfather who started a stevedore and ballast business, Eschen and Minor, in 1891. My family members and I convened in Sacramento because we were going on a field trip to the Port of Stockton, an hour away, where the firm that bought the family enterpri…