Born
in France, Marie Bobin's first experience with desert was a trip
with friends to Death Valley. It was a last minute, 'let’s get out
of LA for the weekend' kind of trip – in August. Marie says they
drove a lot, got out of the car to snap a few photos, then jumped
back into the air conditioned car.
Teaching brought Gay Smith (left in photo above)
to California, as after college graduation there was a glut of
teachers on the east coast. She’d read about a fellow student who
came to Corona, CA to interview, she followed suite and got the job
on the spot. Having been in teaching for over 40 years, Gay talks
about...
In part two of the 100 episode milestone
celebration, I read the remaining excepts chosen from 'The Desert
Was Home', by Elizabeth Crozer Campbell.
Elizabeth describes the beauty of the landscape,
shares some stories about desert friends and neighbors and laments
the changes she and Bill witnessed in the time
since...
In
this special celebration episode, I'm reading excerpts from 'The
Desert Was Home', a book by an original Desert Lady, Elizabeth
Crozer Campbell.
If
you’re unfamiliar, Elizabeth, or Betts, as her husband called her,
she was born in Beach Haven, NJ – so of course I felt an immediate
kinship with her.