thin
legs rubbed
special organs on the
or wings, this
stridulation
ridged veins along
a scraper, other membranes
(katydid
night)
Orthoptera
straight wing
descended from McKittrick
Asphalt
in turn
Pennsylvania Age
or 1861
strip
plague
locusts
Stearns and Temple slaughtered
15,000 cattle
hides
jerky
tallow
ranchos soon orchards
* two months + fifty inches
* two year drought
*
smallpox winter
water
river
water
river
winter
river
water
river
water
river
spring
river flooded, flowed free again as it carved yet another new
path to
the ocean, depositing willow seeds along the way, while
William Willmore stood at what
is now Long Beach Boulevard and Anaheim Road (a dirt path all the way to
the Anaheim
Colony), looked out and declared that
in a few months the soft air of Willmore City
will crowd its borders with residents,
while the American Colony will be filled
with groves, orchards and vineyards . . .
In half a decade the town of Willmore
City
will diffuse itself from the bluffs of the ocean,
backward and upward, into bowers of beauty
and groves of fruit, with all that nature can create
of comfort and profusion, and filled
with songs of birds, the laugh of children
and the praise of God.
[Richard De Atley, Long Beach: The Golden
Shore: A History of the City and the Port, ed. Myrtle D.
Malone, (Houston: Pioneer Publications, Inc., 1988).]
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