Journal of Alta California

Harvesting the Fruits of Their Labors

I’ve told the story so many times while standing in front of orange trees and lemon trees and kumquat trees and persimmon trees in backyards and groves throughout Los Angeles County that it has started to sound apocryphal even to me.

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