THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! is a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. 

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! Audio Tour

JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD is a book, installation and downloadable car audio tour by Kim Stringfellow exploring the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California's Morongo Basin region near Joshua Tree National Park. Stories from this underrepresented regional history are told through the voices of local residents, historians, and area artists—many of whom reside in reclaimed historic cabins and use the structures as inspiration for their creative work. 

For more information, please visit the project website at: www.jackrabbithomestead.com.

To order the book, click here: www.kimstringfellow.com/bookorder.html.

Funding for the JRHS Audio Tour was made possible, in part, by a grant from Cal Humanities as part of their statewide California Stories Initiative. Cal Humanities is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Council and the California Stories Initiative, visit www.californiastories.org.

Jackrabbit Homestead Audio Tour

"Still Waters and Green Pastures," written by Betty Wade and Vito Pellettieri originally recorded by the Ames Brothers in 1947, was performed by Claire Campbell with Hope For Agoldensummer in late 2020.

This is a bonus track for an audioscape collaboration between musician/artist/author Jim White, singer/songwriter Claire Campbell and artist Kim Stringfellow. Audio tour producer Tim Halbur contributed sound design. Photograph of Catherine Venn by Harold Weight for Desert Magazine, August 1950.

Excerpts are from Catherine Venn Peterson's (1901-2002) six-part Desert Magazine series published during 1950 chronicling her Small Tract homesteading experience in Palm Desert, California. Catherine's literary impressions are brought to life by Campbell, accompanied by Jim White’s original score. This program is part of a site-specific art installation by Kim Stringfellow commissioned for Desert X 2021.  https://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/jackrabbit-homestead-desert-x-2021

The cabin is on public view at The Station in Joshua Tree for an extended stay during summer 2021. Info: https://jackrabbithomestead.com/2021/05/31/jackrabbit-homestead-at-the-station-in-joshua-tree/

Desert X 2021 desertx.org/dx/desert-x-21/kim-stringfellow
Jackrabbit Homestead http://jackrabbithomestead.com/
Jackrabbit Homestead Instagram www.instagram.com/jackrabbithomestead/
Jim White Lives Here! https://jimwhitemusic.net/
Hope for Agoldensummer www.hopeforagoldensummer.com/
Kim Stringfellow http://kimstringfellow.com/

Order the book! https://kimstringfellow.com/bookorder.html

Still Waters performed by Hope For Agoldensummer

A Mojave Desert monsoon recorded in Joshua Tree, California, on July 31, 2022.

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Mojave Desert Monsoon, July 31, 2022

SITE
Boyle Heights

LOCATION
East Los Angeles

THREATS AND CONTAMINANTS
Lead, particulate matter, attempts to site toxic waste incinerators and other polluting industries

VOICE
Juana Gutierrez, Ricardo Gutierrez, Madres del Este de Los Angeles / Mothers of East Los Angeles-Santa Isabel (MELA-SI)

Mission Road to the north, the Los Angeles River to the west, and the Los Angeles city limits to the east and south bound Boyle Heights. As many as 320,000 drivers a day pass through the two-mile long East Los Angeles Interchange on the west side of the Boyle Heights, one of the busiest in the U.S, and the first high-speed interchange ever built.

Boyle Heights has historically been a gateway for immigration into Los Angeles, and from 1920 to 1950 was the city's most ethnically diverse neighborhood. As of the 2000 census, nearly ninety-five percent of Boyle Height's residents are listed as Latino.

In the early 1980s, responding to plans to construct a state prison in East Los Angeles, a group of local mothers in the Boyle Heights neighborhood organized and formed the Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA-SI). This collective group of community activists has since continued to fight against projects like toxic facilities intended for East LA, including plans to site a "waste-to-energy" municipal garbage incinerator�the Los Angeles City Energy Recovery project (LANSER).

The incinerator, destined for a mostly African-American and Latino area, would have burned 1600 tons of trash daily. Already surrounded by congested freeways and heavy industry, and where residents suffered an increased risk of respiratory illnesses and cancer, MELA-SI organized and fought against it in coalition with Concerned Citizens of South Central from 1983 to 1987, when the LANSER project was finally defeated.

Many of the residents who mobilized successfully against the project had never spoken publicly, and were self-educated in the politics of incinerator siting. Their efforts, in coalition with other activist groups, also defeated a proposed incinerator in the City of Vernon in 1988.

The Madres are considered a model for environmental justice and multiracial community organizing, and have traveled to other communities in California, such as Casmalia and Kettleman City, to help local residents organize and fight proposed hazardous waste projects.

Image: Juana and Ricardo Guiterrez at home in Boyle Heights. 

This track is part of a 23-track set for INVISIBLE-5 a free, downloadable self-guided audio tour by car investigating the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along California's I-5 corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. The project also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route.

For the entire program set, click here: soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/invisible-5

This project was collaboratively produced by Amy Balkin, Tim Halbur, Kim Stringfellow with the organizations, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and Pond/REV+. Creation of this audio project was supported by the Creative Work Fund and produced in 2006.

Track 1: Boyle Heights - East LA

Voice: Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin Director, Center for Biological Diversity

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Sound Design: Tim Halbur

Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin Director, Center for Biological Diversity

Alabama Gates 2024 was a weekend of free community events in Lone Pine, California, November 15 – 17, 2024, commemorating the centennial of the Alabama Gates Occupation. This significant historical event occurred when the people of Owens Valley non-violently seized the Los Angeles Aqueduct’s control gates just north of Lone Pine on November 16, 1924, diverting the entire flow of the aqueduct into the historic Owens River channel in protest of the City of Los Angeles’ aggressive land acquisition and water harvesting activities within the valley that began with the construction and completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913. The 1924 Alabama Gates occupation evolved into a multi-day community picnic as 700 to 1,500 Owens Valley residents gathered in solidarity with the occupiers over four days.

Our event marked this legendary act of civil disobedience, which reverberated worldwide, illuminating these two regions’ complicated and intertwined water history. But it also reflects how white settlers had previously confiscated and occupied Payahüünadü, the ancestral lands of the Paiute and Shoshone People in what is now called Owens Valley, along with the repercussions of this settler colonialism on contemporary Tribal residents who continue to live here.

Our November 15 – 17, 2024, program included roundtable discussions at Lone Pine’s Statham Hall, a no-host community picnic at Lone Pine’s Spainhower Park featuring local food truck concessionaires, film screenings at the Museum of Western Film History, and an interpretive walking tour with a local naturalist at Patsiata (Owens Lake).

This event was produced by There It Is—Take It! in partnership with Sierra Forever (formerly ESIA). Our program was made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEH. Visit our website at alabamagates2024.org.

ABOUT THIS TRACK
Our first panel discussion on Saturday, November 16, 2024, with Payahüünadü Tribal representatives Kyndall Noah, Communications Specialist, OVIWC; Noah Williams, Water Program Coordinator for the Big Pine Paiute Tribe with Dr. Sophia Borgias, Assistant Professor at Boise State University as panel moderator.

CREDITS
Fault Line Radio, a broadcasting project of Metabolic Studio broadcasted our three panel discussions live from Statham Hall in Lone Pine on 89.9 FM. Big thanks to Audrey Clementine Turner for streaming and recording these sessions over the weekend of November 15 – 17, 2024.

Alabama Gates 2024: Panel One, November 16, 2024

Alabama Gates 2024 was a weekend of free community events in Lone Pine, California, November 15 – 17, 2024, commemorating the centennial of the Alabama Gates Occupation. This significant historical event occurred when the people of Owens Valley non-violently seized the Los Angeles Aqueduct’s control gates just north of Lone Pine on November 16, 1924, diverting the entire flow of the aqueduct into the historic Owens River channel in protest of the City of Los Angeles’ aggressive land acquisition and water harvesting activities within the valley that began with the construction and completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913. The 1924 Alabama Gates occupation evolved into a multi-day community picnic as 700 to 1,500 Owens Valley residents gathered in solidarity with the occupiers over four days.

Our event marked this legendary act of civil disobedience, which reverberated worldwide, illuminating these two regions’ complicated and intertwined water history. But it also reflects how white settlers had previously confiscated and occupied Payahüünadü, the ancestral lands of the Paiute and Shoshone People in what is now called Owens Valley, along with the repercussions of this settler colonialism on contemporary Tribal residents who continue to live here.
Our November 15 – 17, 2024, program included roundtable discussions at Lone Pine’s Statham Hall, a no-host community picnic at Lone Pine’s Spainhower Park featuring local food truck concessionaires, film screenings at the Museum of Western Film History, and an interpretive walking tour with a local naturalist at Patsiata (Owens Lake).

This event was produced by There It Is—Take It! in partnership with Sierra Forever (formerly ESIA). Our program was made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEH. Visit our website at alabamagates2024.org.

ABOUT THIS TRACK
Our keynote panel discussion on Saturday, November 16, 2024, with Professor Emeritus John Walton, author of Western Times and Water Wars (UC Press, 1993) and Dr. Sophia Borgias moderated by Jon Klusmire.

CREDITS
Fault Line Radio, a broadcasting project of Metabolic Studio broadcasted our three panel discussions live from Statham Hall in Lone Pine on 89.9 FM. Big thanks to Audrey Clementine Turner for streaming and recording these sessions over the weekend of November 15 – 17, 2024.

Alabama Gates 2024: Panel Two, November 16, 2024

Alabama Gates 2024 was a weekend of free community events in Lone Pine, California, November 15 – 17, 2024, commemorating the centennial of the Alabama Gates Occupation. This significant historical event occurred when the people of Owens Valley non-violently seized the Los Angeles Aqueduct’s control gates just north of Lone Pine on November 16, 1924, diverting the entire flow of the aqueduct into the historic Owens River channel in protest of the City of Los Angeles’ aggressive land acquisition and water harvesting activities within the valley that began with the construction and completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913. The 1924 Alabama Gates occupation evolved into a multi-day community picnic as 700 to 1,500 Owens Valley residents gathered in solidarity with the occupiers over four days.

Our event marked this legendary act of civil disobedience, which reverberated worldwide, illuminating these two regions’ complicated and intertwined water history. But it also reflects how white settlers had previously confiscated and occupied Payahüünadü, the ancestral lands of the Paiute and Shoshone People in what is now called Owens Valley, along with the repercussions of this settler colonialism on contemporary Tribal residents who continue to live here.

Our November 15 – 17, 2024, program included roundtable discussions at Lone Pine’s Statham Hall, a no-host community picnic at Lone Pine’s Spainhower Park featuring local food truck concessionaires, film screenings at the Museum of Western Film History, and an interpretive walking tour with a local naturalist at Patsiata (Owens Lake).

This event was produced by There It Is—Take It! in partnership with Sierra Forever (formerly ESIA). Our program was made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEH. Visit our website at alabamagates2024.org.

ABOUT THIS TRACK
Our final roundtable discussion on Sunday, November 17, 2024, with Owens Valley environmental leaders, including Mary Roper and Nancy Masters, Board Members, Owens Valley Commission; Lynn Boulton, Chair, Sierra Club Range of Light Group; Wendy Schneider, Executive Director, Friends of the Inyo; and Michael Prather, Audubon wildlife advocate for Patsiata (Owens Lake).

CREDITS
Fault Line Radio, a broadcasting project of Metabolic Studio broadcasted our three panel discussions live from Statham Hall in Lone Pine on 89.9 FM. Big thanks to Audrey Clementine Turner for streaming and recording these sessions over the weekend of November 15 – 17, 2024.

Alabama Gates 2024: Panel Three, November 17, 2024

Voice: Dr. Curtis Howe Springer of Zzyzx Mineral Springs

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

This track courtesy of the CSU Desert Studies Center.

Dr. Curtis Howe Springer, July 25, 1961

Voice: Kelly Herbinson, Executive Director, Mojave Desert Land Trust (MDLT)

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.
Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Sound Design: Tim Halbur

Kelly Herbinson, Executive Director, MDLT

Voice: Dr. Kristin Berry, USGS

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Music: Lee Rosevere "Illuminations" @ Free Music Archive.

Dr. Kristin Berry

Voice: Jim Houtz, professional diver

TThis is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Sound design: Tim Halbur

Devils Hole: Jim Houtz

Voice: Jenna McClintock, ballerina-in-residence

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Amargosa Opera House

Voice: Donovan and Linda Leitch

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Sound Design: Tim Halbur
Music: Squire Jack from "Ambient Airwaves" http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Squire_Tuck/Ambient_Airwaves

Donovan and Linda Leitch

Voice: Pappy Allen, former proprietor of Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Recording courtesy of John Huff. All rights reserved.

Pappy Allen: Cool Water (Sons of Pioneers)

Voice: Barbara Durham, Timbisha Shoshone elder

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Barbara Durham, Timbisha Shoshone elder

Voice: Andrew Fitzpatrick, Interpretive Ranger at Providence Mountains State Recreation Area.

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Sound Design: Tim Halbur
Music: Podington Bear

Mitchell Caverns: The Bottomless Pit

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Stan Matlick shares his family's 100-year ranching history in Bishop, CA.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 7: Stan Matlick, Bishop Rancher

Local historian Pat Rimmington discusses the origins of jackrabbit homesteading throughout the Morongo Basin area. Pat has served as president of the Twentynine Palms Historical Society.

JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD is a book, installation and downloadable car audio tour by Kim Stringfellow exploring the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California's Morongo Basin region near Joshua Tree National Park. Stories from this underrepresented regional history are told through the voices of local residents, historians, and area artists—many of whom reside in reclaimed historic cabins and use the structures as inspiration for their creative work. 

For more information, please visit the project website at: www.jackrabbithomestead.com.

To order the book, click here: www.kimstringfellow.com/bookorder.html.

Funding for the JRHS Audio Tour was made possible, in part, by a grant from Cal Humanities as part of their statewide California Stories Initiative. Cal Humanities is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Council and the California Stories Initiative, visit www.californiastories.org.

Credits: “Can't Go Back,” © Lee Jeffriess 2009. 


JRHS: Track 1

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICES: Historians William Kahrl & John Walton outline key events before the Angeles Aqueduct was completed in 1913.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 3: City of Destiny (William Kahrl with John Walton)

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICES: Historians William Kahrl and John Walton overview deception and civil unrest within the Owens Valley during the 1920s.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 4: There It Is—Take It! (William Kahrl with John Walton)

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Big Pine Paiute tribal member Alan Bacock recounts the landscape of his ancestral people before European settlement.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 2: Alan Bacock, Big Pine Paiute Tribal Member

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: OVC’s Mark Bagley illuminates environmental impacts within the Owens Valley that ushered in the modern the “Water Wars.”

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 5: Mark Bagley, Owens Valley Committee

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Sierra Wave Media’s Benett Kessler reported on LADWP-related issues in the Owens Valley for 37 years.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 10: Benett Kessler, Sierra Wave Media

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. 

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Daris Moxley’s family has operated a 200-acre LADWP ranch lease in Bishop since the 1930s.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 9: Daris Moxley, Bishop Rancher

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Harry Williams, a Bishop Paiute tribal member and environmental activist discusses the ancient irrigation systems of the Paiute.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 8: Harry  Williams, Bishop Paiute Tribal Member

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: LADWP Water Resources Manager Brian Tillemans discusses the Lower Owens River Project.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 12: Brian Tillemans, LADWP Water Resources Manager

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. 

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Lone Pine resident Mike Prather describes the return of migratory bird populations on the newly rewatered Owens Lake. Photograph of avocets in flight by Gail Klett.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 14: Mike Prather, Environmental Activist

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. 

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: LADWP Public Relations Officer Chris Plakos describes the infrastructure of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 1: Chris Plakos, LADWP Public Relations Officer

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Former Inyo County Water Dept. Director Greg James explains the 1991 Inyo-LA Long Term Water Agreement.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 6: Greg James, Former Inyo County Water Department Director

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.  

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Thaddeus Taylor shares an ongoing dispute with LADWP over surface water flows running through the 40 Acres community. 

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 11: Thaddeus Taylor, 40 Acres Resident

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. 

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Sam Wasson, a retired LADWP employee and long-time resident of Keeler, recounts an Owens Lake dust storm event.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 15: Sam Wasson, Retired LADWP Employee & Keeler Resident

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. 

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: LADWP’s Bill VanWagoner explains the department’s dust mitigation efforts being implemented on Owens Lake. 

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 16: Bill VanWagoner, LADWP Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Manager

This track is part of a 17-track set for THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. 

For the entire program set, click here: http://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/sets/there-it-is-take-it/

VOICE: Long-time Independence resident Nancy Masters elucidates on community activism and the future of Owens Valley.

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Track 17: Nancy Masters, Community Activist

THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! is a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the controversial social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system. This is the complete 1.33.36 program (17 tracks total).

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

There It Is—Take It! (complete program)

Jacob Sowers is a cultural geographer. In this segment he discusses his doctoral research concerning jackrabbit homesteading. Sower's grandparents live in Wonder Valley so his connection to this landscape is  a personal one. 

JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD is a book, installation and downloadable car audio tour by Kim Stringfellow exploring the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California's Morongo Basin region near Joshua Tree National Park. Stories from this underrepresented regional history are told through the voices of local residents, historians, and area artists—many of whom reside in reclaimed historic cabins and use the structures as inspiration for their creative work. 

For more information, please visit the project website at: www.jackrabbithomestead.com.

To order the book, click here: www.kimstringfellow.com/bookorder.html.

Funding for the JRHS Audio Tour was made possible, in part, by a grant from Cal Humanities as part of their statewide California Stories Initiative. Cal Humanities is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Council and the California Stories Initiative, visit www.californiastories.org.

Credits: Music from Freedom Highway, Part I (1956) and Conquering Roads (1937) both soundtracks provided by the Prelinger Archives.

JRHS: Track 2

Chris Carraher is a Wonder Valley resident and artist. Her past creative work has referenced the homestead cabins as subject. Chris discusses her community and the notion of property ownership in this segment.

JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD is a book, installation and downloadable car audio tour by Kim Stringfellow exploring the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California's Morongo Basin region near Joshua Tree National Park. Stories from this underrepresented regional history are told through the voices of local residents, historians, and area artists—many of whom reside in reclaimed historic cabins and use the structures as inspiration for their creative work. 

For more information, please visit the project website at: www.jackrabbithomestead.com.

To order the book, click here: www.kimstringfellow.com/bookorder.html.

Funding for the JRHS Audio Tour was made possible, in part, by a grant from Cal Humanities as part of their statewide California Stories Initiative. Cal Humanities is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Council and the California Stories Initiative, visit www.californiastories.org.

Credits: “Bohemia,” composed by Claire Diterzi, from original soundtrack of “Requiem for Billy the Kid” a film by Anne Feinsilber. © & (p) Cargo Films 2006—exclusive license Naïve.


JRHS: Track 3

Andrea Zittel is a Joshua Tree resident and internationally recognized artist who co-directs the High Desert Test Sites. Andrea talks about her first encounter with the homesteading cabins and why the shacks inspired her to move to the Morongo Basin region. Credits: “Deserte Moi,” © Olivier Hermitant 2009. 

JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD is a book, installation and downloadable car audio tour by Kim Stringfellow exploring the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California's Morongo Basin region near Joshua Tree National Park. Stories from this underrepresented regional history are told through the voices of local residents, historians, and area artists—many of whom reside in reclaimed historic cabins and use the structures as inspiration for their creative work.

For more information, please visit the project website at: www.jackrabbithomestead.com.

To order the book, click here: www.kimstringfellow.com/bookorder.html.

Funding for the JRHS Audio Tour was made possible, in part, by a grant from Cal Humanities as part of their statewide California Stories Initiative. Cal Humanities is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Council and the California Stories Initiative, visit www.californiastories.org.

Credits: “Deserte Moi,” © Olivier Hermitant 2009.

JRHS: Track 4

Stephanie Smith is a Joshua Tree resident and architectural designer. In this track Stephanie discusses how the homesteading cabins inform sustainable architecture. Jonathan Odom, a SCI-Arc student who participated in Smith’s Architecture Unplugged design in Joshua Tree joins her in this conversation. 

JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD is available as a hardcover book and as a web-based multimedia presentation featuring a downloadable car audio tour exploring the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California's Morongo Basin region near Joshua Tree National Park. Stories from this underrepresented regional history are told through the voices of local residents, historians, and area artists—many of whom reside in reclaimed historic cabins and use the structures as inspiration for their creative work. 

For more information, please visit the project website at: www.jackrabbithomestead.com.

To order the book, click here: www.kimstringfellow.com/bookorder.html.

Funding for this project is made possible by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities as part of the Council's statewide California Stories Initiative. The Council is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Council and the California Stories Initiative, visit www.californiastories.org.

Credits: “Steve in Car,” composed by Claire Diterzi, from original soundtrack of “Requiem for Billy the Kid” a film by Anne Feinsilber. © & (p) Cargo Films 2006—exclusive license Naïve.


JRHS: Track 5

JRHS Audio Tour (complete program)

Voice: Tom O'Donnell, retired metallurgist at Rand Mining Company

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Sound Design: Tim Halbur

Tom O'Donnell, miner

Voice: Mathew Leivas, Sr. Salt Song Singer/Chemehuevi Tribal Elder

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

Sound Design: Tim Halbur 
Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Matt Leivas Sr., Salt Song Singer

Audioscape collaboration between musician/artist/author Jim White,  singer/songwriter Claire Campbell and artist Kim Stringfellow. Audio tour producer Tim Halbur contributed sound design.

Excerpts are from Catherine Venn Peterson's (1901-2002) six-part Desert Magazine series published during 1950 chronicling her Small Tract homesteading experience in Palm Desert, California. Catherine's literary impressions are brought to life by Campbell, accompanied by Jim White’s original score. This program is part of a site-specific art installation by Kim Stringfellow commissioned for Desert X 2021. The cabin is on public view at The Station in Joshua Tree for an extended stay during summer 2021. Info: https://jackrabbithomestead.com/2021/05/31/jackrabbit-homestead-at-the-station-in-joshua-tree/

Opening original song was written by Claire Campbell, performed by Hope For Agoldensummer. "Still Waters and Green Pastures," written by Betty Wade and Vito Pellettieri originally recorded by the Ames Brothers in 1947, was performed by Claire Campbell with Hope For Agoldensummer in late 2020. Photograph of Catherine Venn by Harold Weight for Desert Magazine, November 1950.

Bonus track: https://soundcloud.com/kstringfellow/still-waters

Transcript of the program for hearing impaired: https://jackrabbithomestead.com/Diary_Jackrabbit_Homestead_2021.pdf

Background for this project: https://jackrabbithomestead.com/jackrabbit-homestead-desert-x-2021/

Listen to the archived listening party Zoom event from May 1, 2021 here:  https://tinyurl.com/235yk26j 

Desert X 2021 https://desertx.org/dx/desert-x-21/kim-stringfellow 
Jackrabbit Homestead https://jackrabbithomestead.com/
Jackrabbit Homestead Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jackrabbithomestead/
Jim White Lives Here! https://jimwhitemusic.net/
Hope for Agoldensummer https://www.hopeforagoldensummer.com/
Kim Stringfellow https://kimstringfellow.com/

Order the book! https://kimstringfellow.com/bookorder.html

Diary of a Jackrabbit Homesteader | Desert X 2021

Kim Stringfellow is an artist, educator, writer and independent curator based in Joshua Tree, CA. Her work bridges cultural geography, public practice and experimental documentary into creative, socially engaged transmedia experiences. She is a 2016 Andy Warhol for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in 2018. Stringfellow is a Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University’s School of Art + Design.

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