Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The Lehigh Hanson cement plant has been the employment anchor of Tehachapi life for more than 100 years. Three generations of some local families have worked at the facility. The Los Angeles Board of Public Works built the original cement plant to provide construction material for the Los Angeles Aqueduct that carries water from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles. Aqueduct project manager William Mulholland sited the plant at Monolith at the foot of the Tehachapi hills near deposits of high-grade...
An 1881 children's book shows that the concepts of diversity, compassion and tolerance are not modern inventions. Forde Files found a water-damaged children's book titled "Chatterbox," edited by British Anglican clergyman Erskine E. Clarke. The book contains stories of kindness and loyalty as well as intriguing items about foreign lands. A poem and illustration called "Gilbert sewing a Frill on Dora's Frock" cries out for understanding toward a boy whose inclinations run counter to the notion...
I remember a gentleman who came up to me just after the Memorial Day Ceremony held at Mojave Cemetery on May 28, 2007, and asked if he could say a few words. He apologized for being so emotional, but he was a Pearl Harbor survivor who had served aboard the USS California (BB-44) and had been in Walmart in Lancaster, wearing his jacket bearing patches from Pearl Harbor signifying he was a survivor of the attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. A teenager came up to him and wanted to know...
Treasure Trove featuring artist Christi Friesen On Friday Evening, July 7, Tehachapi Treasure Trove will celebrate First Friday from 5-8 p.m. A make and take to bake experience has been scheduled with Christi Friesen, internationally known polymer clay artist and author of a number of polymer Clay how to books. Come join Christi and have some fun making a glow-in-the-dark ghoulie to take home and bake. Christi will supply the materials. Enjoy our usual food, wine, good conversation and laughter...
On Friday, July 7, as part of the First Friday evening event, the Tehachapi Christian Bookstore will host a book signing for author Eran A. Baumann for his first novel, "Daddy: The Shofar of Abel." The event will be held at the Tehachapi Christian Bookstore on Tehachapi Blvd. from 6 to 8 p.m. Baumann is a local Tehachapi resident who identifies with no specific label, choosing instead to be called "a follower of the Messiah Yeshua." He will be signing copies of his inaugural novel that follows...
