Links

Historical

• ANDREW P. HILL – He saved the Redwoods – The story of Andrew P. Hill and how he saved the giant redwood trees, as told by Leonard
• The Leonard McKay Collection – These photographs span over a wide period of Santa Clara Valley history from the late 1800s to 1970s and this online exhibit represents only a small portion of the total collection

San Jose

• History San Jose – A website dedicated to the history of San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley
• Soft Underbelly of San Jose – Site by Eric Carlson, about the stranger/quirkier side of San Jose
• History Park at Kelley Park – History Park in San Jose
• San Jose Inside – A blog written by a selection of San Jose locals, about life in and around California and San Jose. Leonard’s blogs featured here in the last few years of his life

Leonard McKay

• McKay Family History – My website full of the family history, researched by Leonard McKay and myself – a constant work in progress
• The Leonard McKay Memorial Pothole – Information on the pothole(!) dedicated to Leonard McKay

• Eliza (Bessie) Catherine Layton McKay Smith: Co-founder of Smith & McKay Printing, 1919
  Article that featured in The Trailblazer (Quarterly Bulletin of the California Pioneers of Santa Clara County) all about Leonard McKay’s grandmother, Bessie Smith, and her involvement in the Smith & McKay Printing Company.
• Local historian’s dream of South Bay artists’ exhibition about to come true
  Newspaper article from the Rose Garden Resident about Leonard McKay’s seemingly impossible dream coming true, the collection of 32 watercolors and oil paintings by 20th century Silicon Valley artists going on public display for the first time at History Park, San Jose.