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As a young person, when I still lived in Mojave, it was a special day when we could come to...

I remember one Dec. 31, 2016, New Year's Eve when Father Time, old 2016, made an effort to throw...

When you find that someone who should remember has forgotten your birthday, you say, "Oh, don't...

This finishes off a thumbnail sketch of the happenings that I once jotted down. It's a mighty long...

I left you in the early days of the 20th Century in "nineteen 'aught' nine." That's the way the old...

Sometimes it's interesting to read little timelines listing events of many years ago. I don't...

Some years ago I was asked by the Friends of the Depot to speak at one of their meetings about my...

When in high school I read a poem that began, "My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the...

The Tehachapi Heritage League has received permission to open the doors of the Museum and Errea...

One of my earlier memories from the 1930s was Tehachapi's 4th of July free barbecue! It was taken...

Even though the pictured home was destroyed by the 1952 Earthquake, at one time in the 1890s, it...

Since the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, people have had a love affair with tr...

We all, on occasion, make a visit to a cemetery and in this time period we find most of them well ma...

The religious celebration of Easter is eternal and the reason for the commemoration of the day...

I travel north occasionally to visit one of my sons. Sometimes we go out to have dinner and one...

I was reading a portion of an old news article the other day that sounded like an advertisement for...

Tehachapi was once a vast, spacious valley with tall, waving grasses, wild game and running...

Mark Twain is reputed to have said, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything...

When I was a child and we became ill, my mother took over with a few home remedies. If that didn't w...

Everyone has a dog story. Those animals whose main concern is the person who owns them. Their love...

In 1933, during one of the worst periods of the great depression, my parents found themselves...

I get along very well with the English language as it's the only language I learned to speak. A smat...

Once in a while I like to include one of my husband's "Tales of the Old Corps." This one is just a...

I read an article a while back that described a study (a study?) about why children didn't care for...

Some years ago, I wrote an article for The Loop newspaper entitled "Only a bootlegger's daughter."...