follow their fathers and they wound up working at the southern pacific railroad station in southeast bakersfield. it is basically like a historical relic. there were lots of folks in bakersfield that what to make that old depot into a historical monument. there was not a lot of money out there for it now. it's a historical relic. this is the men who worked on the railroad. that was my father's side. through looking at my own family, one of the scenes that for my mother's side, you have the connections to agriculture and you kind of had a more urban and industrial history. i asked myself, this doesn't fit within that polemic i was talking about at the start of the lecture. this is an okie history, necessarily connected to the united farmworkers. i had to ask myself does the history matter at all and what i came to find out is that it did and that is what i want to unpack for you. let me explain about how i came to that process. after i graduated from college at berkeley, i started graduate school first at cal state bakersfield and then i transferred to uc santa barbara. i was always attracted to