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"content": "\u003cp>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letter to My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from Matt Elkins, to his mom and dad, Thelma and Morton Elkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Mom and Dad,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You both came to San Francisco from the East Coast. Dad, you came from Philly in the 1940s to attend Stanford on the GI Bill. Mom, you were working in a New York shipyard in the early 1950s. You visited a friend in San Francisco and never left. Your friends and family were bewildered by your choice to relocate so far away. You both would say that California was founded by those who chose to leave somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 277px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11803875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41638_morton-elkins-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41638_morton-elkins-qut.jpg 639w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41638_morton-elkins-qut-160x312.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morton Elkins as a GI. \u003ccite>(Matt Elkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You were both political southpaws, and had a deep dislike and fear of the communist witch hunts, spreading like lava across the country, ruining lives in its Cold War path. In 1953, Governor Earl Warren passed the \u003ca href=\"http://Gov.%20Earl%20Warren%20Signs%20Levering%20Act,%20Loyalty%20Oath%20for%20All%20State...\">Levering Act\u003c/a>, which required all public employees to sign a loyalty oath disavowing “radical beliefs.” You fell in love with each other after meeting at a non-signers' party. Not signing the oath was an earlier, more dangerous version of \"taking a knee.” The outcome could eventually lead people to jail, the poorhouse, even suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Indeed, outing people for their communist beliefs and/or sympathies, true or not, had already taken its toll for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dad, you lost your job as an English teacher when you refused to sign the oath. You took a job as a warehouseman, and became active in the International Longshoreman’s and Warehouse Union. That was a red flag for the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, as it was called. They interrogated you in 1960, when they dropped into San Francisco like a circus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I keep the recording of that interrogation, first broadcast on KQED, on my phone for those times where I need strength, or just miss you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 446px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41640_vintage-omg-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41640_vintage-omg-qut-1.jpg 446w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41640_vintage-omg-qut-1-160x215.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thelma Elkins by the beach. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Elkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Everything about it: the accusations, parlance, and countenance made for a surreal stage production of sorts. You were prepared. In your own, very familiar way, you utilized your time to defend, disarm, and educate, flustering and flummoxing your interrogator before finally being excused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Mom, you were raising two young daughters, were also six months pregnant with me. You worked for the Red Cross, managing to fly under the radar even though you also refused to sign the oath. You often said that the pressure was enormous, and that just giving in and going along with the majority was a choice both tempting yet unimaginable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 585px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41639_themla-w-bby-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41639_themla-w-bby-qut-1.jpg 585w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41639_themla-w-bby-qut-1-160x164.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thelma Elkins with her oldest daughter Rachel in 1955, in their apartment on Stanyan St. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Elkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">At great cost to your growing family, you dealt with wire taps, threats, even swastikas graffitied on your Richmond, California home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dad, you were officially vindicated in 1967, when the California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that the Levering Act was unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You and mom went on to have careers as social workers and business owners in Berkeley. You stayed surrounded by the people who emerged, scarred but alive. At the height of the Vietnam War, you marched down Telegraph Avenue, lined up against the California National Guard with your kids. You continued to fight other battles as they came up, wack-a-mole style. Mom, even while you had cancer and were going blind, you organized and fought for the rights of low-vision sufferers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Mom and Dad, your efforts and experiences teed up a much easier existence for me and my sisters. I envy your strength, and often wonder if I could call on it under the same circumstances. In the current political climate, your help would be invaluable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love, Matt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Indeed, outing people for their communist beliefs and/or sympathies, true or not, had already taken its toll for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dad, you lost your job as an English teacher when you refused to sign the oath. You took a job as a warehouseman, and became active in the International Longshoreman’s and Warehouse Union. That was a red flag for the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, as it was called. They interrogated you in 1960, when they dropped into San Francisco like a circus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I keep the recording of that interrogation, first broadcast on KQED, on my phone for those times where I need strength, or just miss you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 446px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41640_vintage-omg-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41640_vintage-omg-qut-1.jpg 446w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41640_vintage-omg-qut-1-160x215.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thelma Elkins by the beach. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Elkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Everything about it: the accusations, parlance, and countenance made for a surreal stage production of sorts. You were prepared. In your own, very familiar way, you utilized your time to defend, disarm, and educate, flustering and flummoxing your interrogator before finally being excused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Mom, you were raising two young daughters, were also six months pregnant with me. You worked for the Red Cross, managing to fly under the radar even though you also refused to sign the oath. You often said that the pressure was enormous, and that just giving in and going along with the majority was a choice both tempting yet unimaginable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 585px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41639_themla-w-bby-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41639_themla-w-bby-qut-1.jpg 585w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41639_themla-w-bby-qut-1-160x164.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thelma Elkins with her oldest daughter Rachel in 1955, in their apartment on Stanyan St. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Elkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">At great cost to your growing family, you dealt with wire taps, threats, even swastikas graffitied on your Richmond, California home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dad, you were officially vindicated in 1967, when the California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that the Levering Act was unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You and mom went on to have careers as social workers and business owners in Berkeley. You stayed surrounded by the people who emerged, scarred but alive. At the height of the Vietnam War, you marched down Telegraph Avenue, lined up against the California National Guard with your kids. You continued to fight other battles as they came up, wack-a-mole style. Mom, even while you had cancer and were going blind, you organized and fought for the rights of low-vision sufferers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Mom and Dad, your efforts and experiences teed up a much easier existence for me and my sisters. I envy your strength, and often wonder if I could call on it under the same circumstances. In the current political climate, your help would be invaluable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love, Matt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In late November, The California Report Magazine held a night of live storytelling that explored stories about California dreams found, and lost, and whether that dream is still alive. In Part Two, hear selected highlights from the event, “Dreaming the Golden State,” held at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. You can listen to part one of our program \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796176/dreaming-the-golden-state-with-the-california-report-magazine-part-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Discovering My True Self in Modesto\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toni Rodriguez of Modesto performs his ‘Letter to My California Dreamer’ that he wrote to himself, live on stage at San Francisco’s Brava Theater. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of the show’s “Letter to My California Dreamer” series, several listeners shared what they had written to the first person in their family who moved to the Golden State with a dream. For Toni Rodriguez, that person was himself. He wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707691/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-discovering-my-true-self-in-modesto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to the kid from the Bronx who dreamed of moving west and surfing with the Beach Boys. After arriving in California, he was able to find and live as his true self.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Her Double Life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Linh Le performs a dance titled ‘Underwater.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My Linh Le has been lying to her family about who she really is for decades. Growing up, her Vietnamese immigrant parents were extremely strict and prone to rage. So she didn’t tell them when she decided to switch her major from biochemistry to dance. As My Linh told reporter April Dembosky, she’s had to take some big steps to cover up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670259/her-double-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her double life\u003c/a>, and she has her reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Finding Home and Harvest in Salinas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Barocio reads a letter she wrote to her big brother, Humberto. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sandra Barocio of Moss Beach wrote a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674420/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-home-and-harvest-in-salinas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> letter\u003c/a> to the family member who brought her to California, her older brother, Humberto. She remembers making the long drive north from Mexico in the family’s brown Dodge Polara, and how she and her parents and siblings had to sleep under a tree, until Humberto found them shelter. Fifty-two year later, she wants to thank him for delivering their family safely to the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Daps and Hugs: I’m Moving Out of Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797412\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS-Pendarvis-Harshaw-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pendarvis Harshaw, host of KQED’s arts and culture podcast ‘Rightnowish’ describes leaving his hometown. (Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/a> is a cultural icon in his own right, with deep roots in Oakland. He’s also the host of KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rightnowish\u003c/a>” podcast, which explores how Bay Area identity shapes the artists who live and create there. At the event, Pen describes the weekend he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865533/daps-and-hugs-im-moving-out-of-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved away\u003c/a> from his home town.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Pursuing the Next Great American Novel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-289.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tai Moses reads a letter to her father, who moved to California with dreams of becoming a writer. (Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Letter to My California Dreamer\u003c/a>” was read by Tai Moses. She \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694742/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-pursuing-the-next-great-american-novel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> to her father, who crossed the country from Coney Island to Los Angeles, with his portable typewriter in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mike Marshall Gets a Second Chance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11797646 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-226.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">R&B singer Mike Marshall performs “I Love Music.” (Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11796176 label='Part One' hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/DreamingGoldenState_Eventbrite-1020x538.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRte0S2a_dA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recognize\u003c/a> Mike Marshall’s voice, even if you don’t know his name. The R&B singer wasn’t always credited for his hits, and he struggled for many years with addiction. Now he’s starting to get the recognition he deserves and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13864913/after-last-black-man-and-us-singer-mike-marshall-gets-a-second-chance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second chance\u003c/a>. His music has recently been featured in the films “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/hNCmb-4oXJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Us\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FnJDhY9-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Last Black Man in San Francisco.\u003c/a>” Mike Marshall closed out our event with a live performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In late November, The California Report Magazine held a night of live storytelling that explored stories about California dreams found, and lost, and whether that dream is still alive. In Part Two, hear selected highlights from the event, “Dreaming the Golden State,” held at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. You can listen to part one of our program \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796176/dreaming-the-golden-state-with-the-california-report-magazine-part-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Discovering My True Self in Modesto\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-193.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toni Rodriguez of Modesto performs his ‘Letter to My California Dreamer’ that he wrote to himself, live on stage at San Francisco’s Brava Theater. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of the show’s “Letter to My California Dreamer” series, several listeners shared what they had written to the first person in their family who moved to the Golden State with a dream. For Toni Rodriguez, that person was himself. He wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707691/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-discovering-my-true-self-in-modesto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to the kid from the Bronx who dreamed of moving west and surfing with the Beach Boys. After arriving in California, he was able to find and live as his true self.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Her Double Life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Linh Le performs a dance titled ‘Underwater.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My Linh Le has been lying to her family about who she really is for decades. Growing up, her Vietnamese immigrant parents were extremely strict and prone to rage. So she didn’t tell them when she decided to switch her major from biochemistry to dance. As My Linh told reporter April Dembosky, she’s had to take some big steps to cover up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670259/her-double-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her double life\u003c/a>, and she has her reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Finding Home and Harvest in Salinas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/KQED19DreamingGS_CRM-254.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Barocio reads a letter she wrote to her big brother, Humberto. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sandra Barocio of Moss Beach wrote a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674420/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-home-and-harvest-in-salinas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> letter\u003c/a> to the family member who brought her to California, her older brother, Humberto. She remembers making the long drive north from Mexico in the family’s brown Dodge Polara, and how she and her parents and siblings had to sleep under a tree, until Humberto found them shelter. Fifty-two year later, she wants to thank him for delivering their family safely to the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California has long lured dreamers. People looking to reinvent themselves. To find a better future for their children. To have a home with a palm tree in the front yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we know that dream is also increasingly out of reach for many people. And some are beginning to question whether the California dream is worth it, or whether it’s even still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, KQED’s The California Report Magazine in November hosted “Dreaming the Golden State,” a night of live storytelling about California dreams found … and lost. The event, at San Francisco’s Brava Theater, featured some of KQED’s own radio reporters, transferring their stories from the airwaves to the stage, along with five listeners who shared their own California dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is part one of highlights from the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How My Parents Found a Place to Love in LA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11796333 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Report Magazine’s host Sasha Khokha kicked off the evening with her own family’s California dream story. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To kickoff the evening, TCR Magazine host Sasha Khokha shared her family’s California dream by reciting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670400/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-how-my-parents-found-a-place-to-love-in-l-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> she wrote to her parents. A rebellious Irish Catholic girl and a skinny Indian engineer, the two met and fell in love at a time when interracial marriage was still illegal in some parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Searching for New Beginnings on ‘Gold Mountain’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11796178 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiffany Eng, of Oakland, performed her ‘Letter to my California Dreamer’ to her great great great grandparents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In our ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Letter to My California Dreamer\u003c/a>‘ series, we asked listeners to send us compositions written to the first people in their families who arrived in California. One of the first submissions we received was from Tiffany Eng of Oakland. On stage, she recited the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684010/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-searching-for-new-beginnings-on-gold-mountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> she wrote to her great-great-great-grandparents, who settled in Oakland’s Chinatown in 1906. Six generations later, Eng said, her family’s roots in Oakland have grown deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Pet Sounds’ at 50: What Ever Happened to Those Goats?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796216\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11796216 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles-based reporter Peter Gilstrap had a musical take on the California dream with a story about The Beach Boys’ album, ‘Pet Sounds.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys, to many people, perfectly represented California. On every album cover, they sold the idealized version of life on the beach in sunny Southern California. But that changed in 1966, when The Beach Boys released \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/6GphKx2QAPRoVGWE9D7ou8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pet Sounds\u003c/a>, with an album cover that featured the very unbeachy image of the band feeding goats. The album was a collection of 13 groundbreaking songs that redefined pop music. In the decades since, critics and fans have scrutinized and analyzed every single aspect of the album, including the mysterious cover. One of our favorite reporters from Los Angeles, Peter Gilstrap, helped unearth the story behind the album.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: A Mother’s Brave Journey to Citizenship\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796368\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11796368 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Listener Javier Cervantes shares his ‘Letter to My California Dreamer’ about his mother, who crossed the Mexico-United States border illegally in search of a better life. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Defying expectations to marry a farmer and have children, Maria Mojarro Cervantes fled Zacatecas in Central Mexico to find a better life in San Francisco. Listener Javier Cervantes of San Jose wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676288/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-a-mothers-brave-journey-to-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to Maria, his mother, about her brave journey to becoming a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Teaching for Nearly Five Decades at a West Oakland High School\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796223\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11796223 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: KQED education reporter Vanessa Rancaño, Dr. LuPaulette Taylor and Sasha Khokha discuss what keeps Taylor motivated after 50 years on the job. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many, a big part of the California dream has been the promise of a good public K-12 education — and two world-class public university systems. At a time when so many teachers are leaving the profession, KQED education reporter Vanessa Rancaño introduced us to Dr. LuPaulette Taylor, who recently began her 50th year on her feet teaching at McClymonds High School in West Oakland, a school that has long struggled with teacher retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California has long lured dreamers. People looking to reinvent themselves. To find a better future for their children. To have a home with a palm tree in the front yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we know that dream is also increasingly out of reach for many people. And some are beginning to question whether the California dream is worth it, or whether it’s even still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, KQED’s The California Report Magazine in November hosted “Dreaming the Golden State,” a night of live storytelling about California dreams found … and lost. The event, at San Francisco’s Brava Theater, featured some of KQED’s own radio reporters, transferring their stories from the airwaves to the stage, along with five listeners who shared their own California dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is part one of highlights from the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How My Parents Found a Place to Love in LA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11796333 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40743_01wxxNGA-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Report Magazine’s host Sasha Khokha kicked off the evening with her own family’s California dream story. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To kickoff the evening, TCR Magazine host Sasha Khokha shared her family’s California dream by reciting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670400/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-how-my-parents-found-a-place-to-love-in-l-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> she wrote to her parents. A rebellious Irish Catholic girl and a skinny Indian engineer, the two met and fell in love at a time when interracial marriage was still illegal in some parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: Searching for New Beginnings on ‘Gold Mountain’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11796178 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40732_4qx2YgfY-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiffany Eng, of Oakland, performed her ‘Letter to my California Dreamer’ to her great great great grandparents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In our ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Letter to My California Dreamer\u003c/a>‘ series, we asked listeners to send us compositions written to the first people in their families who arrived in California. One of the first submissions we received was from Tiffany Eng of Oakland. On stage, she recited the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684010/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-searching-for-new-beginnings-on-gold-mountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> she wrote to her great-great-great-grandparents, who settled in Oakland’s Chinatown in 1906. Six generations later, Eng said, her family’s roots in Oakland have grown deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Pet Sounds’ at 50: What Ever Happened to Those Goats?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796216\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11796216 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40733_ELdxeAbo-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles-based reporter Peter Gilstrap had a musical take on the California dream with a story about The Beach Boys’ album, ‘Pet Sounds.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys, to many people, perfectly represented California. On every album cover, they sold the idealized version of life on the beach in sunny Southern California. But that changed in 1966, when The Beach Boys released \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/6GphKx2QAPRoVGWE9D7ou8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pet Sounds\u003c/a>, with an album cover that featured the very unbeachy image of the band feeding goats. The album was a collection of 13 groundbreaking songs that redefined pop music. In the decades since, critics and fans have scrutinized and analyzed every single aspect of the album, including the mysterious cover. One of our favorite reporters from Los Angeles, Peter Gilstrap, helped unearth the story behind the album.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Letter to My California Dreamer: A Mother’s Brave Journey to Citizenship\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796368\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11796368 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40745_g3CEjqpI-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Listener Javier Cervantes shares his ‘Letter to My California Dreamer’ about his mother, who crossed the Mexico-United States border illegally in search of a better life. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Defying expectations to marry a farmer and have children, Maria Mojarro Cervantes fled Zacatecas in Central Mexico to find a better life in San Francisco. Listener Javier Cervantes of San Jose wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676288/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-a-mothers-brave-journey-to-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to Maria, his mother, about her brave journey to becoming a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Teaching for Nearly Five Decades at a West Oakland High School\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796223\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11796223 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40734_gJdl3-aQ-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: KQED education reporter Vanessa Rancaño, Dr. LuPaulette Taylor and Sasha Khokha discuss what keeps Taylor motivated after 50 years on the job. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Alain McLaughlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many, a big part of the California dream has been the promise of a good public K-12 education — and two world-class public university systems. 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"content": "\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from The California Report producer Suzie Racho to her father, Calixto:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Dad,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never really talked much. Mom was the social butterfly, hosting lively birthday parties and holiday meals. You were always quietly working in the background, cooking or getting the yard ready for guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786832\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-800x1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-800x1140.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-160x228.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-1020x1454.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-842x1200.jpg 842w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho in May 1941, posing at the Hollywood Photo Studio in downtown San Jose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You came to California as part of a wave of immigrants from the Philippines in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/1555-remembering-the-manongs-and-story-of-the-filipino-farm-worker-movement\">1930\u003c/a>s. You picked walnuts and other crops, in the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpl.org/blog/looking-back-canning-valley-hearts-delight\">Valley of Heart’s Delight\u003c/a>”, now known as Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">But just because you were a migrant farm worker didn’t mean you didn’t have style. One of my favorite pictures of you was taken in a downtown San Jose photo studio: you and a friend, in sharp zoot suits with pointy lapels, your shoes shined. I still have your sharkskin suits from the '60s. They were custom-made for your 5’2\" frame. Stature is just one of the things we share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786829\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-800x1197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-800x1197.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-160x239.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-1020x1526.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-802x1200.jpg 802w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut.jpg 1872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho (R) and his friend Benny Valmoja (L) in 1942. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Famly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">After years in the fields, you were one of many Filipinos who volunteered to join the US Army. It was World War II, but at 32,you weren’t exactly a kid. I’ll never know what motivated you to join --was it a chance to show patriotism to your adopted country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You went to basic training at Camp Beale in Yuba County and became a rifleman. The Army assigned you to a segregated unit, the \u003ca href=\"https://history.army.mil/html/topics/apam/filipino_regt/filipino_regt.html\">First Filipino Infantry\u003c/a>. I wonder how it felt to navigate this, going from living in San Jose’s Japantown to fighting the Japanese in the Philippines. You saw combat, earning a Bronze Star. And after serving for four years, you left the Army a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786828\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 286px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-800x1316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-800x1316.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-160x263.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-1020x1678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-729x1200.jpg 729w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho was stationed at Camp Beale in Yuba County in 1942. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never talked about this period of your life, but I remember as a kid, finding long shell casings in a box of your cuff links and tie tacks. I didn’t ask where they came from. Another thing I took from you was to be strong and silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You went back to work on the farms, but you weren’t just picking -- you were also developing horticultural skills. One of your last jobs was growing roses in one of the big nurseries in the Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">By the time you met Mom and had me and my sister Sandie, you’d been married twice and were in your fifties. Friends and teachers always thought you were my grandpa when you dropped me off at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">But you were my dad, an OG DIYer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786836\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11786836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-1020x1361.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzie Racho and Sandie Slife accepted the Congressional Gold Medal on their father's behalf in April 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Suzie Racho)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">There were trips to the hardware store and the lumber yard. I remember the pink playhouse you built for me and my sister, and the Saturdays you spent giving your friends haircuts in the garage. During \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjbetsuin.com/san-jose-obon/\">Obon\u003c/a>, you’d become a grill master, barbecuing hundreds of pork and chicken skewers behind the grill at the Filipino Community Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You also spent hours watching sports on the weekend, so I did too. Tennis, football, boxing, golf….but especially baseball. Thanks to you, I’m still a die-hard Giants fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">It wasn’t until I began taking Asian-American history classes in college, that I realized how much of your life mirrored what I was studying. Your history in California is Filipino-American History.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11786835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-470x470.jpg 470w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">So it was my privilege, 27 years after you died, to represent you as Filipino vets were finally awarded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101862491/filipino-wwii-veterans-receive-long-awaited-recognition-with-congressional-gold-medal\">Congressional Gold Medal\u003c/a> for service in World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Just like your military service, you never talked about your California Dream. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from The California Report producer Suzie Racho to her father, Calixto:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Dad,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never really talked much. Mom was the social butterfly, hosting lively birthday parties and holiday meals. You were always quietly working in the background, cooking or getting the yard ready for guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786832\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-800x1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-800x1140.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-160x228.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-1020x1454.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-842x1200.jpg 842w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho in May 1941, posing at the Hollywood Photo Studio in downtown San Jose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You came to California as part of a wave of immigrants from the Philippines in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/1555-remembering-the-manongs-and-story-of-the-filipino-farm-worker-movement\">1930\u003c/a>s. You picked walnuts and other crops, in the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpl.org/blog/looking-back-canning-valley-hearts-delight\">Valley of Heart’s Delight\u003c/a>”, now known as Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">But just because you were a migrant farm worker didn’t mean you didn’t have style. One of my favorite pictures of you was taken in a downtown San Jose photo studio: you and a friend, in sharp zoot suits with pointy lapels, your shoes shined. I still have your sharkskin suits from the '60s. They were custom-made for your 5’2\" frame. Stature is just one of the things we share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786829\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-800x1197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-800x1197.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-160x239.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-1020x1526.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-802x1200.jpg 802w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut.jpg 1872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho (R) and his friend Benny Valmoja (L) in 1942. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Famly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">After years in the fields, you were one of many Filipinos who volunteered to join the US Army. It was World War II, but at 32,you weren’t exactly a kid. I’ll never know what motivated you to join --was it a chance to show patriotism to your adopted country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You went to basic training at Camp Beale in Yuba County and became a rifleman. The Army assigned you to a segregated unit, the \u003ca href=\"https://history.army.mil/html/topics/apam/filipino_regt/filipino_regt.html\">First Filipino Infantry\u003c/a>. I wonder how it felt to navigate this, going from living in San Jose’s Japantown to fighting the Japanese in the Philippines. You saw combat, earning a Bronze Star. And after serving for four years, you left the Army a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786828\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 286px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-800x1316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-800x1316.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-160x263.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-1020x1678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-729x1200.jpg 729w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho was stationed at Camp Beale in Yuba County in 1942. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never talked about this period of your life, but I remember as a kid, finding long shell casings in a box of your cuff links and tie tacks. I didn’t ask where they came from. Another thing I took from you was to be strong and silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You went back to work on the farms, but you weren’t just picking -- you were also developing horticultural skills. One of your last jobs was growing roses in one of the big nurseries in the Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">By the time you met Mom and had me and my sister Sandie, you’d been married twice and were in your fifties. Friends and teachers always thought you were my grandpa when you dropped me off at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">But you were my dad, an OG DIYer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786836\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11786836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-1020x1361.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzie Racho and Sandie Slife accepted the Congressional Gold Medal on their father's behalf in April 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Suzie Racho)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">There were trips to the hardware store and the lumber yard. I remember the pink playhouse you built for me and my sister, and the Saturdays you spent giving your friends haircuts in the garage. During \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjbetsuin.com/san-jose-obon/\">Obon\u003c/a>, you’d become a grill master, barbecuing hundreds of pork and chicken skewers behind the grill at the Filipino Community Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You also spent hours watching sports on the weekend, so I did too. Tennis, football, boxing, golf….but especially baseball. Thanks to you, I’m still a die-hard Giants fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">It wasn’t until I began taking Asian-American history classes in college, that I realized how much of your life mirrored what I was studying. Your history in California is Filipino-American History.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11786835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-470x470.jpg 470w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">So it was my privilege, 27 years after you died, to represent you as Filipino vets were finally awarded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101862491/filipino-wwii-veterans-receive-long-awaited-recognition-with-congressional-gold-medal\">Congressional Gold Medal\u003c/a> for service in World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Just like your military service, you never talked about your California Dream. 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"content": "\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letter to My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003cbr>\nWhat happened to it?\u003cbr>\nIs that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from listener Andrew Birling to himself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Andrew,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You’re a little over a year into your second California dream, and other than occasional commuter frustration, it’s been amazing. 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Their curiosity and trust in you have your brain working in a way it’s never worked before. Your students are fascinating, your classes are interesting, and the amount of time and energy you spend on both is draining and satisfying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">And as you drive to the school every day, your eyes beam when you see the skyline of Oakland, the bay beyond it, and San Francisco beyond that. The first time you moved here, it was for someone else. This time, it’s for you — and you can’t believe you’re getting a second chance to live your California dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Keep dreaming,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Andrew\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. 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"content": "\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letters to My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003cbr>\nWhat happened to it?\u003cbr>\nIs that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from Gary Crandall to his grandfather, Alfred C. Nelson:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Grandpa,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">In 1920, as the valedictorian of your high school class, you realized you were destined for more than your family’s South Dakota farm. In spite of your first generation Danish father’s wishes, you and your brother hit the road for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770350\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 338px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11770350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut-800x1301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut-800x1301.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut-160x260.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut-1020x1658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut-738x1200.jpg 738w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Crandall's grandparents, Alfred and Eunice Nelson. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gary Crandall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Once you arrived in California, you enrolled at UC Berkeley. You met my grandmother Eunice, fell in love, and married her. Once you started having kids, you realized you needed a dependable job that paid well. Eventually, you became an underwriter for Mutual of New York Life Insurance. You became a salesman for the company, embodying values of integrity and genuine concern for your customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">So, contrary to your father’s expectations, you had become a success. I remember days spent in your office playing cribbage with my cousins and me. Plaques and trophies honoring your professional achievement cluttered the desk and filing cabinets. And still, perhaps surprisingly, there was a longing for the farm. The old maxim was true: You could take the boy out of the farm, but you couldn’t take the farm out of the boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">So you bought a 200-acre walnut farm in Lake County that you referred to as the “ranch.” Despite your high-powered, time-consuming job during the week, you went back up to the ranch each weekend. Soon, my cousins and I began to come up to help with the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 343px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11770360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1-800x1083.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1-800x1083.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1-160x217.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1-1020x1380.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1-887x1200.jpg 887w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last photo Gary Crandall ever took of his grandfather sorting walnuts on the farm. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gary Crandall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I spent many hours tilling around walnut trees, killing rattlesnakes, pruning off the water sprouts at the base of the trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The agricultural DNA in the family runs deep for some of us. Each weekday I drive up the same roads that led to the ranch on my way to my job as head gardener at a Napa estate. And through my work as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXhJAFz7ZcM&t=195s\">documentary filmmaker\u003c/a>, I chronicled a cycling trip I took down Highway 1, visiting gardens and teaching farms along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Grandpa, though you were never one for flowery speech, you taught me the wisdom contained in the Khalil Gibran quote, “Work is love made visible.” Like you, I have discovered the emotionally therapeutic aspects of working and growing in the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">With love and growth,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Gary\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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In spite of your first generation Danish father’s wishes, you and your brother hit the road for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770350\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 338px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11770350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut-800x1301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut-800x1301.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut-160x260.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut-1020x1658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut-738x1200.jpg 738w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38754_al_eunice_1920s-qut.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Crandall's grandparents, Alfred and Eunice Nelson. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gary Crandall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Once you arrived in California, you enrolled at UC Berkeley. You met my grandmother Eunice, fell in love, and married her. Once you started having kids, you realized you needed a dependable job that paid well. Eventually, you became an underwriter for Mutual of New York Life Insurance. You became a salesman for the company, embodying values of integrity and genuine concern for your customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">So, contrary to your father’s expectations, you had become a success. I remember days spent in your office playing cribbage with my cousins and me. Plaques and trophies honoring your professional achievement cluttered the desk and filing cabinets. And still, perhaps surprisingly, there was a longing for the farm. The old maxim was true: You could take the boy out of the farm, but you couldn’t take the farm out of the boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">So you bought a 200-acre walnut farm in Lake County that you referred to as the “ranch.” Despite your high-powered, time-consuming job during the week, you went back up to the ranch each weekend. Soon, my cousins and I began to come up to help with the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 343px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11770360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1-800x1083.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1-800x1083.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1-160x217.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1-1020x1380.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1-887x1200.jpg 887w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38753_grandpa_sorting_walnuts-qut-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last photo Gary Crandall ever took of his grandfather sorting walnuts on the farm. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gary Crandall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I spent many hours tilling around walnut trees, killing rattlesnakes, pruning off the water sprouts at the base of the trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The agricultural DNA in the family runs deep for some of us. 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"content": "\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from Carolyn Gray Anderson to her parents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Mom and Dad:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Your marriage may not have lasted, but your romance with San Francisco did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You headed west with advanced degrees in city planning and met on the job in the early 1960s. The world: your oyster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I grew up already nostalgic for your San Francisco — your North Beach haunts, your episodes with glad-handing local politicians and literary notables, your fantastic rotation of flats, from Telegraph Hill to Nob Hill to Chinatown. Apartments that cost you a roughly a fifth of your entry level incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746894\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 330px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11746894 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut.jpg 1667w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut-160x197.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut-800x983.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut-1020x1253.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut-977x1200.jpg 977w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut-1920x2359.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Anderson, an aviation enthusiast from a young age, served in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1954. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Carolyn Gray Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dad, you left rural Arkansas for the Golden State when a college buddy promised you a summer gig in a Balboa Island restaurant that served up steaks to vacationers and celebrities. The sand was warm, the girls were suntanned, and you ate like a king. No wonder you decided to finish your degree on the Pacific Rim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You earned your master’s from UC Berkeley and worked under four San Francisco mayors in the heyday of redevelopment agencies. You and your fellow planners contributed to projects like BART and the Model Cities Program. And you played hard, too, forming a cadre that persuaded developers to admit you to the vacant top floors of newly-built skyscrapers for your impromptu cocktail hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">In 1969, you scraped together a down payment on a Potrero Hill Victorian. You bought it sight unseen and, for 50 years, there in the banana belt of the city with a sweeping view of the bay, still could not believe your good fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11746904 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Anderson at home in San Francisco, 2014. He bought his 1897 Potrero Hill Victorian in 1969, sight unseen. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Carolyn Gray Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Not everyone who knew you realized you spent many a Thanksgiving or Christmas morning walking through town, handing cash and food to people who live on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Mom, Fort Worth-born with a little Madison Avenue under your belt, you spent your early career holding your own among the man-splainers of the day, a highly educated person who applied her creative ideas to urban systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746896\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 330px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11746896 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37051_Mom-umbrella-smiling-BW-50pct-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37051_Mom-umbrella-smiling-BW-50pct-qut.jpg 865w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37051_Mom-umbrella-smiling-BW-50pct-qut-160x235.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37051_Mom-umbrella-smiling-BW-50pct-qut-800x1175.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37051_Mom-umbrella-smiling-BW-50pct-qut-817x1200.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlotte Schofield, San Francisco, ca. 1962. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Carolyn Gray Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You teetered on I. Magnin spike heels as you pushed your baby's pram up and down San Francisco hills. Literate and lipsticked, with a penchant for vintage Porsches, you were just as comfortable with the John Cheever set as you were with long-haired hippies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">No one was surprised when you — the poster child for 1980s Dress for Success — retired from HUD to embark on a second career as a fashion designer and instructor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Mom, you now live far away, migrating between nests in Dallas and Northern New Mexico. You can be confident that this boom town boomed best when you boomed with it. The San Francisco of high tech, high rent, and $10 avocado toast will never know the splendid opportunities laid at your feet 60 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dad, you didn't live to hear me read you this tribute. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from Carolyn Gray Anderson to her parents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Mom and Dad:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Your marriage may not have lasted, but your romance with San Francisco did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You headed west with advanced degrees in city planning and met on the job in the early 1960s. The world: your oyster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I grew up already nostalgic for your San Francisco — your North Beach haunts, your episodes with glad-handing local politicians and literary notables, your fantastic rotation of flats, from Telegraph Hill to Nob Hill to Chinatown. Apartments that cost you a roughly a fifth of your entry level incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746894\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 330px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11746894 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut.jpg 1667w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut-160x197.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut-800x983.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut-1020x1253.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut-977x1200.jpg 977w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37052_Dad-Flight-Jacket-qut-1920x2359.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Anderson, an aviation enthusiast from a young age, served in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1954. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Carolyn Gray Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dad, you left rural Arkansas for the Golden State when a college buddy promised you a summer gig in a Balboa Island restaurant that served up steaks to vacationers and celebrities. The sand was warm, the girls were suntanned, and you ate like a king. No wonder you decided to finish your degree on the Pacific Rim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You earned your master’s from UC Berkeley and worked under four San Francisco mayors in the heyday of redevelopment agencies. You and your fellow planners contributed to projects like BART and the Model Cities Program. And you played hard, too, forming a cadre that persuaded developers to admit you to the vacant top floors of newly-built skyscrapers for your impromptu cocktail hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">In 1969, you scraped together a down payment on a Potrero Hill Victorian. You bought it sight unseen and, for 50 years, there in the banana belt of the city with a sweeping view of the bay, still could not believe your good fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11746904 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37056_ERudolph_JHA20140521-L2015818-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Anderson at home in San Francisco, 2014. He bought his 1897 Potrero Hill Victorian in 1969, sight unseen. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Carolyn Gray Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Not everyone who knew you realized you spent many a Thanksgiving or Christmas morning walking through town, handing cash and food to people who live on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Mom, Fort Worth-born with a little Madison Avenue under your belt, you spent your early career holding your own among the man-splainers of the day, a highly educated person who applied her creative ideas to urban systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746896\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 330px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11746896 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37051_Mom-umbrella-smiling-BW-50pct-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37051_Mom-umbrella-smiling-BW-50pct-qut.jpg 865w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37051_Mom-umbrella-smiling-BW-50pct-qut-160x235.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37051_Mom-umbrella-smiling-BW-50pct-qut-800x1175.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37051_Mom-umbrella-smiling-BW-50pct-qut-817x1200.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlotte Schofield, San Francisco, ca. 1962. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Carolyn Gray Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You teetered on I. Magnin spike heels as you pushed your baby's pram up and down San Francisco hills. Literate and lipsticked, with a penchant for vintage Porsches, you were just as comfortable with the John Cheever set as you were with long-haired hippies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">No one was surprised when you — the poster child for 1980s Dress for Success — retired from HUD to embark on a second career as a fashion designer and instructor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Mom, you now live far away, migrating between nests in Dallas and Northern New Mexico. You can be confident that this boom town boomed best when you boomed with it. The San Francisco of high tech, high rent, and $10 avocado toast will never know the splendid opportunities laid at your feet 60 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dad, you didn't live to hear me read you this tribute. You were happiest sitting by the water, whether the bay at sunrise or Point Reyes in the fog of summer. And you lived your last months near the Pacific Ocean, whose sirens had called you decades earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">By your example, Mom and Dad, I traveled and lived far away. But when I returned, it was on purpose. Like you, I take great civic pride in the California city I chose, Los Angeles — this place where people think no one is actually born, though I, a native San Franciscan, meet native Angelenos all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11746900 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37055_aaron-gray-uncompleted-280-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37055_aaron-gray-uncompleted-280-qut.jpg 920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37055_aaron-gray-uncompleted-280-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37055_aaron-gray-uncompleted-280-qut-800x548.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Gray Anderson and her brother Aaron, ca. 1970, on an unfinished stretch of the 280 freeway near Potrero Hill. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I’m sure it reminded you of the Libyan Sahara, where you’d worked as a young engineer on water delivery projects. There’s a line in Lawrence of Arabia about that strange kind of Englishman who loves deserts – because he’s a misfit in his own “green, fat country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11731550\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35665_pitchford1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35665_pitchford1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35665_pitchford1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35665_pitchford1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35665_pitchford1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35665_pitchford1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicola’s father, Julian Pitchford, with his infant son Mark in his grandparents’ garden in England, circa 1964. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nicola Pitchford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Making me an immigrant, you made me a misfit too. I’m a privileged one: I speak my native language (more or less); I’ve never lacked a safe place or been treated with suspicion for my origins or my colour. But I still have that subtle gap, the alien uncertainty that makes me listen for things that go unnamed, things named differently in other tongues. I’m part of that global tribe that doesn’t take home for granted. I lean toward those on the edges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">And so I feel called by kinship to the migrant families now living a nightmare in the deserts of the Southwest. I know you shared their simple urge, the urge of good parents anywhere, to seek a better life for their children. I made that hard for you: all those mornings I sat crying over breakfast, homesick for the green hills of my motherland and heartsick for the mother who was somewhere among them. What does it do to a parent to see their child so unhappy and be helpless? Did you second-guess your choices? I don’t need to ask what it does to a child to be both uprooted from a home and separated from a parent, even as gently as it happened to me. I can offer no comfort to the parents and children torn from one another under the blazing borderland sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">When you looked at the beauty of deserts, you too saw the nomads and migrants, the displaced and the dispossessed. Your own sense of kinship took you back in your last years to Africa’s driest places, to work alongside them in bringing clean water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731540\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11731540\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35671_pitchford7-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35671_pitchford7-qut.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35671_pitchford7-qut-160x113.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Joshua Tree and Death Valley sent to Nicola in London by her now-husband, Wilson. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Wilson Neate)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I adore the desert now. I’m still learning its language, its words, the natural history of its resilient plants and creatures. I married another immigrant desert-lover. I fell for him when I was working in rainy London and he sent photos from Joshua Tree and Death Valley, so I’d have a dream of blue sky to pin on my wall. A California dream. You would have appreciated that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Your loving daughter,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Nicola\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a letter from San Jose resident Kimberly Brown to her grandparents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Grandparents,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Your story started in 1936, shortly after being married in rural Oklahoma. Grandpa, you were 22, and grandma, you were 18. Between the two of you, no one had a dime. Just a hope and a dream that there was something and somewhere better than the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You told me you’d paid a smuggler to get you two into California. You were both Americans, but in 1936 the Los Angeles Police Department briefly established a “Bum Blockade” to ban Dust Bowl migrants from entering the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728242\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11728242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_1.png\" alt=\"The oldest known photo of Kimberly Brown's grandparents, Nova and Bud Smith. Brown says, "Looks like he's putting a ring on her finger, maybe asking her to marry him." On the left is Nova's sister, Dorothy.\" width=\"620\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_1.png 620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_1-160x258.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The oldest known photo of Kimberly Brown’s grandparents, Nova and Bud Smith. Brown says, “Looks like he’s putting a ring on her finger, maybe asking her to marry him.” On the left is Nova’s sister, Dorothy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kimberly Brown)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You had your eyes set on Oakdale in the San Joaquin Valley, where you had family and the promise of work. Without a car, horse or wagon — only the clothes on your back — you jumped trains out of Oklahoma. You said it was a good way to travel then, that people looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You sometimes would walk back roads looking for work in exchange for a meal. Grandma, you told me of the sweet woman that took pity on you because you were so thin. She put grandpa to work and fed you in the kitchen. You ate as much as you could. You laughed at that memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">When you arrived in Oakdale, your sister and brother-in-law gave you a home. You said you were lucky to have family there because many ended up in migrant camps with no running water or sanitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">They called you “Okies,” a derogatory name meaning dirty, criminal, and stupid. You were none of these. Just two young people looking for work. That’s why I sympathize for those who make the difficult journey from south of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728247\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_3-800x619.png\" alt=\"From left to right: Kimberly's mother Carolyn Brown, Kimberly Brown, and grandmother Nova Smith.\" width=\"800\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_3-800x619.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_3-160x124.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_3-1020x789.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_3-1200x928.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_3.png 1590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Kimberly’s mother Carolyn Brown, Kimberly Brown, and grandmother Nova Smith. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kimberly Brown)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Grandma, you ended up working in the canneries, feeding America. Grandpa, you would go on to build some of the great highways of Northern California, including Highway 17. I think of you often when I drive over it and how you told me it was the worst road ever built. I agree, but I know the curves to slow down on so don’t worry!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">For the next decade, you followed work all over the country. Grandpa, you even worked on the Panama Canal. Finally, the two of you made Oakdale your permanent home for you and your five children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Grandparents, the California dream delivered you from poverty to middle-class. For me, the California dream is pride in my state. It’s a state of many cultures, diverse landscapes, bountiful farmland, and world-changing industries. I’m proud to be a Californian and your granddaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Kimberly\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_2-800x829.png\" alt=\"Kimberly Brown's grandparents, Bud and Nova Smith, standing in front of the house in Oakdale. The Smiths and their children built in the early 1970s. "This picture was likely taken when my grandfather became ill and they were forced to sell their beloved home,” said Brown. “That was my home away from home when I was growing up, where all their kids and my cousins would meet."\" width=\"800\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_2-800x829.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_2-160x166.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_2-1020x1057.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_2-1158x1200.png 1158w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_2-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/KB_2.png 1390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly Brown’s grandparents, Bud and Nova Smith, standing in front of the house in Oakdale. 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And things were looking promising. He got his real estate license on the third try. You guys settled in a condo overlooking Diver’s Cove. I started writing in earnest. My first short story got published. I relocated to Hollywood. Ron was my biggest fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Together you opened a restaurant named Ron’s in Laguna. You ran the kitchen. Ron covered the bar. You both worked hard. And in the 80’s we all drank too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">When the restaurant folded (after seven good years), you both fled the Golden State for mom’s Denver basement. Midlife sobriety gave you a fresh start, but a fast-moving brain lesion felled you at 51. Five years later, Ron died a heartbreaking \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113627/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>“Leaving Las Vegas”\u003c/em>\u003c/a> death. To honor your last wishes and give you the last laugh, I scattered both of your ashes in Wyoming’s \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/igA67V6EbBm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazy Woman Creek\u003c/a>. I miss my two ‘brothers.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">As a gay man, California welcomed me as I am. I made films. I wrote novels. I found long love with my partner Tom. I am so proud to be a Californian. I owe that to you. 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The next 10 years spent in L.A. saw you become a public speaker, rallying workers of all ethnicities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11722435\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut-160x198.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut-800x988.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut-1020x1260.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut-971x1200.jpg 971w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While living in Los Angeles, Blas Lara wrote and edited for Regeneracion, a political newspaper started by the Partido Liberal Mexicano. The paper rallied Mexicanos on both sides of the U.S. border in support of the Mexican Revolution and workers rights. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Archivo Magón)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">By 1920 the revolution ended, and the newspaper was no longer published, so you returned to Northern California. You settled in West Berkeley where you got married and raised four children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Growing up, I remember visiting you in your small wooden house on 5th Street. Once a month, my parents, sister and I would cross the Bay from Marin County in our blue Mercury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">On these visits, you never spoke much. But you communicated your sentiments by the look in your eyes and the feel of your handshake. When you’d shake my hand, you’d say, “You will be a school teacher.” You were right. 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Ten years later, I finally read it and learned about your clandestine life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11722434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34997_Lara-at-grandfathers-home-qut-e1548957508111-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34997_Lara-at-grandfathers-home-qut-e1548957508111-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34997_Lara-at-grandfathers-home-qut-e1548957508111-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34997_Lara-at-grandfathers-home-qut-e1548957508111-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34997_Lara-at-grandfathers-home-qut-e1548957508111-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34997_Lara-at-grandfathers-home-qut-e1548957508111.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lara Medina stands in front of her grandfather's home in West Berkeley. 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The next 10 years spent in L.A. saw you become a public speaker, rallying workers of all ethnicities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11722435\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut-160x198.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut-800x988.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut-1020x1260.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34998_Regeneracion-qut-971x1200.jpg 971w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While living in Los Angeles, Blas Lara wrote and edited for Regeneracion, a political newspaper started by the Partido Liberal Mexicano. 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