“This is what California is: a long central valley encircled by mountains.” ─geographer John A. Crow
In 2014, I retraced the journey that oral historian Frank Latta took through California’s rural San Joaquin Valley in 1938. He boated. I drove during a drought.
My two-week, self-funded reporting trip formed the basis of my book The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley. Here are some pics from the Valley.
