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Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories: A Home on the Range: The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma: Photos
Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories: A Home on the Range: 
The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma
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Big Chicken -- This big chicken stood at the entrance to the town of Petaluma announcing that Petaluma was the "Egg Basket of the World".
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Courtesy of Petaluma Museum
Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories: A Home on the Range: 
The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma
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Bonnie and Judy- (Left) Judy Montell and (right) Bonnie Burt at the Castro Theatre at the SF Jewish Film festival debut of HOTR, July 2002.
Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories: A Home on the Range: 
The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma
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Butter and Egg Days -- circa 1920's -- traditional Petaluma celebration of the chicken and cattle industries in Petaluma, 1920's.
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Courtesy of Petaluma Museum
Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories: A Home on the Range: 
The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma
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Chix carriage -- This carriage was part of a Butter and Egg Day celebration in Petaluma where resident dressed as chickens and eggs. circa 1920.
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Courtesy of Petaluma Museum
Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories: A Home on the Range: 
The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma
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HOTR woman -- Lil Fishman Krulevitch circa 1930's holding a chicken on her chicken ranch in Petaluma. Lil still lives in Petaluma today and appears in HOTR. She recalls Nazis marching down Main Street in Petaluma in the 1930's.
Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories: A Home on the Range: 
The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma
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Song of a Jewish Cowboy -- Scott Gerber is a descendant of chicken ranchers. He works as a cowboy in Petaluma today and also sings Yiddish and cowboy songs. He appears in HOTR and in the dompanion short "Song of a Jewish Cowboy" by co-producer, Bonnie Burt.
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