Madera Ca Little Town

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Madera Ca Little Town

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Phyllis Kaltenbach

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Photograph - Photo /mokuhanga

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My grandmother, May Hilton Davis, of Fresno, California wrote this poem over 100 years ago. We have a copy of a book of her poems and this is one of them. Whoever made the sweet tile, named Madera, CA did not know who wrote the poem. I grew up in Madera and I knew of "Nana's" poems as a child. I was pleasantly surprised, many years later, when I discovered her poem on this tile in a restaurant gift shop in Madera. She had actually written the poem after a visit to Madera, 20 miles away from Fresno where she lived. Her father (my great-Grand father) was a blacksmith and built some of the finest wagons in California. People came to Fresno from all over California to buy his wagons. He, also, at one time was the Blacksmith in Bodi, CA, now a pretty little "ghost town".
Nana had 9 children, my father being the oldest of the Davis children. It was wonderful growing up in the small town of Madera and having so many Aunts, Uncles and cousins. My sister still lives in Madera. Most of the Davis' stayed in CA. Only a few of us had to wander further afield.
Madera sits in the San Joaquin Valley in Central CA. I grew a up a rather shy "Valley Girl" and married a big boistrous, humorous, fun, Iowa lad whom I met in college in Missouri! We have lived in several of the United States and now have only a mountain pass and a couple of hundred miles between us and Madera!
The story as I know it.

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