Linda Greilich of Golden Era Productions presents the copyright certificate of the play to the Ramona Bowl Board President Joe Grindstaff. Valley News/Courtesy photo
As the last weekend of the Ramona Outdoor Play begins, it brings to mind another side of the original Ramona play written by Garnet Holmes based on Helen Hunt Jackson’s novel “Ramona.”A portion of Jackson’s novel is inspired by actual events taking place in the late 1800s in the San Jacinto Valley. There was a time in the West when there was a strong resentment toward some Native American tribes because of past brutal wars and alleged atrocities. Adding to this friction was the continuing expansion of the California agricultural and ranching economy and its accompanying development of historical indigenous and Spanish lands.Since 1923, when the first outdoor play based on the novel “Ramona” was staged by the early Hemet Chamber of Commerce at the Ramona Bowl, additions
