Early Days
 

[PART ONE]

Talk about cramped quarters once upon a time, all
eleven members of the Jackson family lived at 2300 Jackson
Street. ‘You could take five steps from the front door and you'd be
out the back,’ Michael said of the house. ‘It was really no bigger
than a garage.’

Katherine and Joseph shared one bedroom with a double bed.
The boys slept in the only other bedroom in a triple bunk bed; Tito
and Jermaine sharing a bed on top, Marlon and Michael in the
middle, and Jackie...
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JOSEPH & KATHERINE

[PART ONE]

Joseph Walter Jackson was born on 26 July 1929, to Samuel and
Chrystal Jackson in Fountain Hill, Arkansas. He is the eldest of
five children; a sister, Verna, died when she was seven. Samuel, a
high school teacher, was a strict, unyielding man who raised his
children with an iron fist. They were not allowed to socialize with
friends outside the home. ‘The Bible says that bad associations
spoil youthful habits,’ Chrystal explained to them.

‘Samuel Jackson lov...
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1. Introduction


PART ONE


The bucolic town of Los Olivos in Santa Barbara County is a little more than a hundred years old. If a visitor wants a sense of the local history, Mattei's Tavern, built in 1886, is the place to go. One of many monuments to a by-gone era, it was a stagecoach stop where guests stayed overnight during their journeys, back when the only mode of transportation was horse-drawn carriage. It also became a stop-off point for the Pacific Coast Railway narrow gauge line, construc...
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