Arrival Stories Abound in Echo Park-Silver Lake

America, it is often said, is a country of immigrants.

And nowhere is that more true than in Los Angeles, a city built on the energy of new arrivals.

Echo Park resident Jeremy Rosenberg is capturing that in an online series for KCET called Arrival Stories.

Rosenberg wrote us earlier this week to tell us about Arrival Stories' latest installment, about Silver Lake resident Michael Dawson.

You can read that here.

Dawson's legendary bookstore--known especially for its deep collection of books about Los Angeles history--closed just a few years ago.

The EastsiderLA did a good job sorting through some of the other local stories chronicled, including Tigeorges Laguerre.

Read the Eastsider's breakdown here.

And look for a notice on our site about Rosenberg's nextl, a series of live talks by local thinkers he's been presenting around town.

We missed the one he did last week at Atwater Crossing, but we're told that Solano Canyon resident and painter Carolyn Castano stole the show!