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(I wrote an account of the 1932 flood over 30 years ago for the Tehachapi News. I was lucky to find...

Charlotte Wilson, a recent graduate of Heritage Oak School, was notified in June that she was the...

I was talking to a gentleman the other day who said he'd like to read another one of my husband's...

If I had not read Jon Hammond's article about King snakes, I probably would not have thought about...

When I was 17 and fresh out of high school, I was hired as an operator at the local telephone...

After checking my article in the last issue of The Loop newspaper I realized I had left out...

I miss driving but being a passenger has its perks, also. For myself, on recent trips, I could...

"I saw you toss the kites on high and blow the birds about the sky..." That quote from Robert Louis...

When I occasionally travel Willow Springs Road toward Rosamond and Lancaster, I pass Truman Road...

Some years back I ordered, from a little catalog, a strip of something with inserted flower seeds. A...

I have mentioned before that I originated in Mojave and only moved to Tehachapi in 1937. During my...

In 1950, when I began living in the Southland, it was, and still is, 200 miles from Oceanside,...

The Hoppers are not a family that moved here recently, but little hopping insects; grass hoppers and...

I was fortunate to be able to grow up, during most of my childhood, in the same town with long-time...

In the early 1800s, the entire San Joaquin Valley of Central California was populated by the Native...

One hundred thirty-eight years ago there was a small frame building on West F Street. A frame...

The first time I heard about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was in 1950. My Marine husband and I...

There used to be a radio program whose host gave news as it was supposed to have happened. After...

There hangs on my wall, among an assortment of family photos, a photo of a fine looking lady. Her...

Father Joseph Mohr had journeyed to Oberndorf , a small town in Austria. It was his new assignment...

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...