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Farmersville Tales-Part 2

Farmersville Tales-Part 2

March 12, 2023 by philcline in /

Old Men Walking Every morning there was a parade across town.  This parade had no floats, no marching bands, no banners, no cheerleaders, no clowns tossing candy from miniature cars.  The parade was of old men walking.   Sometimes the old men walked alone, other times they marched in twos and threes.  You could see them gesturing with […]

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Farmersville Tales

Farmersville Tales

March 6, 2023 by philcline in / /

Farmersville Tales Introduction I grew up in Farmersville.  This series of essays, largely memories and impressions of my youth, span, roughly, the years 1950 to 1965 a period during which I, and Farmersville (finally incorporated in 1960) came of age. These are my stories.  And the stories of a special people.  My people.  Many were migrants who moved west […]

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Earmarks

Earmarks

January 10, 2018 by philcline in / /

January 9th 2018   President Trump today, left a few mouths hanging open when he made a seemingly offhand comment about bringing back Earmarks. Not the first time he has expressed an idea that at first shocks, but upon sober reflection turns out to be worth discussing.   Recently, the Tulare County Sheriff and District […]

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