Panama

Stories set here

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Crocodiles in the Chagres, fever in the air, two boys lost from sight all day on the jungle trail — the family's 1852 shortcut to California.

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Myrtle Sans's son jumped from his crippled plane over Panama so the others might make it. His parachute failed.

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Sarah Plaskett, mother of twelve, was honored among the pioneer mothers at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.

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Fresh off the Panama steamer, the Plasketts lived in a tent on the San Francisco sand while they built.

The people of Panama

Everyone the family archive records in the story of this place. Descendants: if one of these is yours, we’d love to hear from you.