Then what a beautiful area, and in the us for agriculture and oil related production. With the help of bright house from there he went to an area networks, for the next hour we will bring you to the birthplace of the bakersfield sound to learn about the citys history called turn the island which was and meet with local authors. The former name of bakersfield. We begin a special look with a and in 1862, he came to current visit to russos books, the island via boat because in 1862, local family owned and operated bookstore. We have the great flood of 1862. It rained for 40 days and 40 im michael russo, russos books in bakersfield, california. Nights. It flooded all the way from weve been there 24 years. Is a familyowned business but canada to mexico. My tears, my brother, two sisters and myself, and weve colonel baker was not in our. Been very active in the business. My mom is the reader in the family. And weve always been retail. Entrepreneur. Most people came to california we grew up w
End of the san joaquin valley. Bakersfield is the ninth largest city in california and the seed of Current County which ranks third in the u. S. For agriculture and oil related production. With the help of Bright House Networks the next hour well bring you to the birthplace of the bakersfield sound to learn about the citys history and meet the local authors. We begin our special look at bakersfield with a look at russos books a family owned and operated bookstore. I am Michael Russo of russos books and bakersfield california. We have been here 24 years. Its a family owned business my parents, my two sisters my brothers and myself. We are here every day and loving it. My mom is the leader of the family and we have always been retail and we grew up with books. The opportunity came that a used bookstore went up for sale and we wanted to dive into the self ownership and own our own business. We saw bookstore globe for sale. It was a used bookstore and we jumped at the opportunity and it ha
thank you so much. it s great to be with you. it s wonderful to come into a city where there s rain. [laughter] i live in my wife suzanne, who is with me and you ll meet later, we have lived for some years in tulsa, oklahoma where there s plenty of water and wood. it s a very green place, but like the rest of this nation, it s been stricken, and temperatures and triple digits for many, many days, and that s the way it s been for us most of the summer because we re now in the last leg of this national book tour, and we ve been all over the country. deep in the eastern united states on the other side of the mississippi where i sometimes go, and all over the southwest and the west where i prefer to be, being a missourian, innative of missouri, i always looked west, down the santa fe trail, the native trails, the route 66, the beloved road, so this is the part of the country i do like the best, and when i declared my major, if you will, as a writer, it was about the american
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