Friday, December 7, 2007

Kingsburg's Santa Lucia Festival

Aired on KQED's The California Report, Fri, December 7, 2007.

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R712071630/b

Drive a stretch of Highway 99 near Fresno, and you'll see it: an enormous Swedish coffee pot rising above the vineyards and orchards. It's really a water tower in disguise and it's the visitor's first hint of how the the 12,000 townspeople of Kingsburg celebrate their hamlet's Swedish heritage. I visited Kingsburg as it celebrated Santa Lucia, an icon from the old country.