Aired on KQED Public Radio's The California Report Magazine Friday, November 5, 2010.
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201011051630/c
After listening to the story, check out the photo slide show (including historic images loaned by the great folks in Lindsay) and reporter's notebook, where I include more stories about reporting in Lindsay.
Small towns in California face an uncertain future. The economies that created many of them – like logging, or mining – have died or changed. The populations and cultures of those towns have changed. too, which I'll explore in my series: New Harvest: The Future of Small Town California. First up is Lindsay, CA, a Central Valley town of 12,000 built up around olive and citrus groves. Twenty years ago, a state-wide freeze signaled the start of a series of events crippling Lindsay’s economy. But the town forged a new identity, and it’s celebrating its centennial this year.
