Quotes worth sharing

"The archeology and the artifacts are neat, but it's the Indian culture and the living people that are the real treasure, and sometimes we forget that." - Archeologist Al Knight discussing research on the Kawaiisu Indian people of Tehachapi

"I live up on Deertrail Drive, and I use second gear instead of fourth gear coming down the hill in my truck. I timed it and compared the times, and it only took about a minute longer to use second gear and it sure saved on my brakes. I follow people down the hill all the time who don't downshift, and their brakes lights are on the whole way and you can smell their brakes burning when they reach the bottom." - Kenny Hignite, Tehachapi plumber and one of the original residents of Bear Valley Springs discussing how some people drive foolishly down steep hills.

"I was born in Cummings Valley on December 21, 1907. My Dad was a cowboy named Anselmo Campos and my mother Mary Ocana Campos. Every Sunday in the summer there was a barbecue or something going on in Cummings Valley. A different farmer would have one every Sunday. We didn't go to church, because all we had was a horse and buggy, and by the time we got there church would be over and the priest would be gone. We started school in Cummings Valley but it snowed so much in the wintertime that school was closed half the time. We'd go down the Sheeptrail to Bakersfield in the buggy. It took most of the day to get there." - Mary Rodriguez

"You can't make chicken pie out of chicken poop." - Warren Johnson, former publisher of the Tehachapi News. He generally used a more colorful word for dung.

"My kids will see someone they graduated from Tehachapi High with, and they won't know that person's name. That just didn't happen when my wife Nancy and I went to THS – we knew everyone in our class by name in the late 1970s. We were very fortunate to have grown up when it was still Mayberry around here. There were both pros and cons to that era, but it was definitely small town living. . ." - David Schulgen