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Thank you to the Gazette for covering the local Democratic candidate forum on Tuesday night at Northampton High School. It was great to see all the lieutenant governor candidates in attendance. However, I was disappointed that in a tight two-person. ....
Gerald Haslam, SSU professor and 'working man's writer' who chronicled Central Valley, dies at 84 pressdemocrat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressdemocrat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Print Growing up in the 1950s, author Gerald Haslam developed what he called a perverse pride in a taunt hurled at the people of his hardscrabble Central Valley town: Oildale Okies. The Kern County community was known for its Dust Bowl migrants, people looked down upon by other Californians who labeled them and their neighbors dirty and poor. The air smelled of crude oil. The heat seared. The dust devils danced in the ever-present wind. By Haslam’s account, Oildale was characterized by “a combination of conviviality and bigotry.” But for the most part, people looked out fo\r each other, worked hard, and, above all else, told good stories. His hometown, he wrote, “had plenty of warts, yet I loved it.” ....