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That is the title of an article I wrote last September excerpted from my novel Donnie and Jean, an angel’s story about two children circa WWII Bakersfield, but it came to me the subject needed a broader emphasis in light of things...
Posted by samheath
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:55:46 PDT
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The City of McFarland’s quaint history still rings true today. The community was founded as a result of one family’s journey, and as families still journey here, they celebrate small-town quaintness but with extended...
Posted by kathyrowland
- Thu Aug 9, 2007 11:58:59 PDT
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The City of McFarland’s quaint history still rings true today. The community was founded as a result of one family’s journey, and as families still journey here, they celebrate small-town quaintness but with extended...
Posted by kathyrowland
- Wed Aug 8, 2007 10:26:37 PDT
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Hi,
To anyone in Bakersfield listening,
My family is seeking to know my relatives and their past and other family. We are looking for any information including where Fred and Lucinda are buried, memberships,...
Posted by OneArtist
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:18:25 PDT
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There are a great number of individuals who were raised together at the Sunset Camp during the 1940s. Our parents would be picked up at the camp gate by trucks from DiGiorgio Farms. They would work all day long in the fields and the...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Tue Jul 10, 2007 13:38:51 PDT
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Bakersfield
The Police Building
By: Topo Gigio
Boy! who is running this city?
I tell you, they sure know their business
I’m impressed at their ingenuity
They have placed the Police Building in...
Posted by topogigio
- Fri Jul 6, 2007 15:14:08 PDT
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John and Dave bumped into each other one morning waiting for their first bus to kindergarten nearly 47 years ago on a sunny September morning in 1960. This was to start a long and fast paced life of laughs and triumphs for these...
Anonymous user
- Mon Jul 2, 2007 15:57:51 PDT
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I had an aunt Louise Redman. She may have married and we were not aware of married name. My father recieved news in 1989 or 1990 that she had died in an accident on Tehachapi Pass. It seems she was trying to elude police, or trying to...
Posted by BarbaraRedmanPratt
- Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:20:26 PDT
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TEHACHAPI, Calif. – It’s not exactly camping out under the stars. It’s more like camping out with the stars.
The historic old Noah Beery Jr. ranch in Hart Flat is opening its rustic gates to the inaugural Adventure...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Fri May 25, 2007 18:06:50 PDT
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The Sebastian Indian Reservation
By Jeff Nickell
The earliest explorers and settlers from Mexico, Spain, and the United States found Native Americans already on the land that would later become Kern County. The...
Posted by kerncountymuseum
- Tue May 22, 2007 10:22:12 PDT
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From living in a dirt floor cabin near Caliente California, Eleanor Hulda Calhoun became a world famous star of the theater and a Princess in The Kingdom of Serbia.
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It...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Fri May 4, 2007 14:00:14 PDT
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The Wasco High School Agriculture Department and FFA was formed in 1931 with Mr. J. L. Fiddler as the instructor/advisor. The program had 13 students at the time. Through the past 75 years, Wasco FFA has enjoyed countless...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:52:31 PDT
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As a young man in Kansas and Oklahoma, I have memories going back to our ranch on the Beaver River in Oklahoma, just after the start of the Great Depression.
My parents moved into town so that we kids could be closer to school. This...
Posted by citizenjournalist
- Fri Apr 13, 2007 16:46:44 PDT
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I was born in Bakersfield and lived in the area until 1957 when my family moved to Missouri and I briefly visited the city when passing through in 1982.
An uncle (Dick Redman) recently died and a friend sent me the link to his...
Posted by BarbaraRedmanPratt
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 14:42:58 PDT
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