The Other California
Host Alice Daniel takes you to places that aren’t typically what people imagine when they think about the Golden State — small rural towns in the San Joaquin Valley, rich with stories and unique histories. Places that play a role in shaping not only The Other California, but the entire state. Produced by KVPR in Fresno. More at KVPR.org.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 12
- Years Active
- 2022
Episode 11: Story
In this last episode of The Other California, we return to the town where we started, Woodlake. Here, Olga and Manuel Jimenez talk about the legacy of the Bravo Lake Botanical Garden and why listenin…
00:13:17 |
Fri 27 May 2022
Episode 10: Livingston
A Japanese farming community called Yamato Colony took roots in Livingston in 1907; by 1940, about 70 Japanese families were farming more than 3700 acres in Livingston. Two years later, its residents…
00:27:42 |
Fri 20 May 2022
Episode 9: Taft
Taft was described in 1912 as “perhaps the liveliest town in the state,” a frontier community of the sort that movie fans once expected Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable to brawl in. Of course, it’s chan…
00:23:48 |
Fri 13 May 2022
Episode 8: Home
In this week’s episode, host Alice Daniel talks to writer and journalist Mark Arax about what it means to grapple with trying to truly understand the place where he was born and still calls home, the…
00:28:01 |
Fri 06 May 2022
Episode 7: Avenal
Kids in small towns don’t always have enough to do after school but a free boxing gym in Avenal is a place of dreams for many youth including two fourth graders who are training hard to win tournamen…
00:22:14 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Episode 6: Huron
All mayors of small towns need a day job. In Huron, Mayor Rey León, a community organizer since college, runs a non-profit that focuses on making the lives of farm workers better. This episode featur…
00:28:33 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Episode 5: Origins
People come to work in the San Joaquin Valley for many reasons: as refugees, as migrants and as immigrants. And as you’ll see in this episode, they don’t all come to work the land. At the beginning o…
00:26:13 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Episode 4: Chowchilla and Fairmead
We leave last week’s Western Stampede behind but return to the town of Chowchilla to find out more about its history from its Dust Bowl migrants to present day immigrants, including the only Yemeni-A…
00:26:40 |
Fri 08 Apr 2022
Episode 3: Chowchilla
The town of Chowchilla has an annual cattle drive that goes straight through the center of town to mark the beginning of the Chowchilla Western Stampede, an event that includes team roping and barrel…
00:18:33 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
Episode 2: Woodlake
The town of Woodlake doesn’t have a stoplight but it does have a 13-acre botanical garden where kids learn about agriculture and earn their community service hours. Locals Manuel and Olga Jimenez cre…
00:37:41 |
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Episode 1: Ridges
In this episode of The Other California, Host Alice Daniel starts out by sharing her own story about what brought her to the San Joaquin Valley, her first impressions, and how reporting on the storie…
00:19:41 |
Fri 18 Mar 2022
Introducing: The Other California
Listen to the trailer for The Other California.
00:02:32 |
Wed 09 Mar 2022
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