The 9000 Year History Of The Oasis Of Mara by Agence published on 2024-02-26T03:32:07Z Pat Flanagan is a longtime compadre and friend and informal co-writer. She's a scientist, a botanist, biologist, naturalist and educator. Pat tells the story, the only story, the big story of humans and the environment, how people first got here, what they found and why it matters today. It was my home for so many years as a kid, 3500 California Blvd in Pasadena. a lush environment in the shade of sparkling mountains gradually eclipsed by the dreaded smog. My family would escape for spring break to the desert, where similar post war 50s/60s families congregated. In light of global heating, I made a Documentary Feature Film about it, the desert , and it's ecological and cultural vulnerabilities. It's called Who Are My People? (Clip) In postwar America there were kids everywhere and they congregated too. One such family, the Johansings, who owned a refuge for the traveler, called The 29 Palms Inn, fate had chosen to be the custodians and stewards of a 9000 (THOUSAND) year old refuge, at that time long ago, a rapidly changing landscape inhabited by early Indigenous peoples to the Americas, following the last ice age. It is here, our story begins. Genre Radio