Derryl Dumermuth
Charles H. Baker "The Blind Violin Maker"
In the seventeenth century, Cremona, Italy, had two famous violin makers - Nicolo Amati and Antonio Stradivari. In the twentieth century,...
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Ellen Gorelick
- Jul 14, 2021
- 2 min
Oliver Franklin Mefford
Who was Oliver Franklin Mefford, and why does the City of Tulare's Airport and the rare wooden pre-WWII hangar, south of town and east of...
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Ellen Gorelick
- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
The Yokuts Indians
Before the white man settled in the San Joaquin Valley, this land, from the entire valley floor to the adjoining foothill belt, was home...
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Derryl Dumermuth
- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
Captain Thomas Hinckley Thompson
To survive Tulare's difficult early years - three devastating fires, abandonment by Southern Pacific, failure of the TID bonds, crippling...
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Derryl Dumermuth
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
Dentists: Charles L. Smith, DDS (1858-1945) and Tom Drilling
Charles L. Smith, DDS In the wild, wild west of the nineteenth century, in communities without a resident dentist, a person suffering a...
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Derryl Dumermuth
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
Alfred Elliot
Since 1872, the year of Tulare's birth, this city has been ably represented in Congress by several dozen men (no women, not yet). In...
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Linda Ruminer
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel was of German, Scotch-Irish, and Cherokee heritage, born in Stroud, Oklahoma, on December 22, 1918, during the...
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Ellen Gorelick
- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
Daniel Killes Berry
Daniel Killes Berry was born on October 10, 1824, to Daniel M. Berry and Charlotte Ellen Knight Berry. In 1846, the same year that the...
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Derryl Dumermuth
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
Wooster Beach Cartmill
Wooster! What an unusual name for a little boy. I can easily imagine his schoolmates' reaction, the teasing. Wooster rhymes with rooster:...
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Linda Ruminer
- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
Hazel Virginia Hoyt
Hazel Virginia Hoyt was born on August 21, 1900, in her parents' home in Gresham, Nebraska. Her parents, George and Etta Hoyt, moved...
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Derryl Dumermuth
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
Ling and Mary Joe
With the discovery of gold in 1849, thousands of fortune hunters worldwide came to California, including hundreds of Chinese. In the...
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- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
David Washington Madden
David Washington Madden left his native Pennsylvania at the age of 19, wandered throughout the west for three decades, and finally...
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- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
Turner Nelson
Tulare's early pioneers were a tough breed of men - they had to be tough to survive three devastating fires during the first 14 years of...
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