LINDSKOW, Ed

LINDSKOW, Ed ( - ), lived on Santa Cruz Island in a shack on a hill at Johnson Canyon in 1909. The Baltic picked up crawfish from him and his son, and for Christmas dinner of 1909, they joined the Eatons at Willows Canyon. The Lindskows lived in Lompoc in 1908-1909.

Winter 1908-1909: “…When Ira came in [to Willows, Santa Cruz Island] from fishing that noon, I had just finished baking bread. I suggested we go up to see the Linscows [sic], a father and son from Lompoc who were fishing at Johnson Canyon, to the west of us, and that we could start out early the following morning, pull the traps, call on the Linscows, and come home before the wind started to blow. So it was arranged… Ira had told me that old man Linscow was a very good cook… We saw a large rock out in the ocean, which was Gull Rock, where our string of traps ended and Linscow’s began… The two men came up the trail, and the old man was making excuses for the condition of the shack… ‘If my old woman were here she would keep things clean, but she is too old to come out camping’… I told Mr. Linscow I had a wonderful time and everyone had been so kind to me… I asked Mr. Linscow if he was going to spend Christmas in Lompoc, and he said no, he didn’t expect to go into town until the season was over about the middle of March. If they went in now, they would spend too much of their money, and he wanted to give his earnings to his old lady all at once. I thought this old man had some nerve to call his wife ‘old lady’ since he was pretty old himself… I invited him and his son to have Christmas dinner with us down at Willow Canyon…” [Eaton, Margaret. Diary of a Sea Captain’s Wife, 1980, p. 91-94].