Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Carol soon moved with her parents to Seattle, Washington, where she grew up. Her independent spirit showed up early when she went from house to house in her neighborhood to ask people if she could play their pianos. With the encouragement of a youth minister, she attended Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, and then accepted a job in China Lake, where she would spend the next 60 years. She arrived at China Lake (where she’d never been but which promised
Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Carol soon moved with her parents to Seattle, Washington, where she grew up. Her independent spirit showed up early when she went from house to house in her neighborhood to ask people if she could play their pianos. With the encouragement of a youth minister, she attended Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, and then accepted a job in China Lake, where she would spend the next 60 years. She arrived at China Lake (where she’d never been but which promised
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By BRENT CRANE | Bloomberg | Published: December 19, 2020 John Conaway has lived in and around the town of Ridgecrest since before it was much of a town. In 1967, when he moved his young family to the remote Southern California community, Ridgecrest had been incorporated for only a few years. It was all dirt roads, he says. No stop signs, no nothing. Mostly, the town was there to support the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, an arms-testing base built nearby during World War II. The military contractor Grumman, which employed Conaway as an engineer, had given him a bonus to relocate from New York. Like many of his colleagues and their families, he and his lived on base.