Articles written by susan wiggins
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X-15 record still stands
Column time – what to write, what subject? My bi-weekly dilemma as I dig through my mother Marion...
Mojave Volunteer Fire Department
I get busy with my duties as the Mayor Pro Tem of Tehachapi and with everyday life and the next thin...
Global Leadership Summit a winner
"As a leader, develop a grander vision for your workplace than just success." This week I am taking...
Gossip Rock
I have a confession to make. Either I am getting old(er) or I have been writing this column way too...
Mojave's Poole Building
This is the third and probably the last of the historical collaborations between my brother Bill...
GAVEA in Mojave
The Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance held its quarterly meeting in Mojave recently so its m...
No shooting - or not
Gun control – or not – has been a topic for the ages. In the late 1960s the East Kern area of th...
Nothing new under the sun
“The more things change, the more they remain the same…” There are all sorts of sayings that...
Rosamond schools, education in 1955
In 1955 the Southern Kern County Union School District proudly announced that it had completed...
The desert, the new frontier in 1956
I found an article of my mom, Marion Deaver that she wrote in 1956. I know that because she...
Oroville Dam and East Kern
When everything about the Oroville Dam and Lake in Northern California started to go to “hell in...
Me and the Mule
I was searching through my mother Marion Deaver’s files, trying to find something to write about....
'Be Kind' initiative
This time I am straying from my mother Marion Deaver's history articles to explain something I have...
Birth of a dream
You all know the drill –I scrounge through my mom Marion Deaver's stuff and I find something of...
Native Americans of East Kern
My mother Marion Deaver loved being a member of the Kern Antelope Historical Society and she made...
East Kern weather
Fall has arrived in all of Eastern Kern and of course Tehachapi, where the morning temperatures are...
Rosamond history
I found a file marked Rosamond history that was marked in my mother Marion Deaver’s handwriting an...
From the Mayor
As most of you have noticed, it’s election season, which is hard to avoid unless you live on a...
Railroad memories
Those of you who read my column know I almost always write a piece from my Mother Marion Deaver's...
Cantil Sewage Dump?
I found a file belonging to my mother Marion Deaver about a story that I had never seen or heard of...
Rosamond Review – Part 2
In my last column I discussed the news reported in a Rosamond Review from 1959 that I found in my...
Rosamond Review
This week I decided to write about Rosamond and I found a Progress Edition from the 1959 Rosamond...
Tehachapi Water Woes – 1968
I found an article my mother Marion Deaver written about water in Tehachapi in 1968 and which was...
Mojave Unified Fire Insurance
I find the strangest things when going through my mother Marion Deaver’s files. This week I found...
Tehachapi's Seed Crop
This week I found an article in a 1957 copy of the Tehachapi News that had reprinted an article from the Fresno Bee in my mom’s files. The article...