by Peggi Ridgway and Jan Works

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MEDIA CONTACT
Peggi Ridgway, Author/Project Manager
5146 East 23rd Street
Tulsa, OK 74114

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Email: peg@flowermarkethistory.com

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Bios / profiles of the authors, photographer and artist

Media release  - announce publication
(for November 1, 2008)

Social media press release - announce publication (contains multi-media links)

Informational book flyer (designed and in color) (PDF)

Fact sheet about the book; book highlights (PDF)

Table of Contents, descriptions of chapters

Cover PDFs (also see Images, right column)
... Front cover (7.8mb) - PDF download
... Back cover (4.3mb) - PDF download

Historical photos - please contact us

Original book announcement release (March 2007)

Description at Amazon.com

Media reviews & reader comments

Press: Story Nov 2008 in The Bloomin' News (PDF)

Principal author Peggi Ridgway is currently available by special arrangement (including travel accommodations) to present the slideshow of the book's selected photos with narration of the stories behind the photos. Email

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Get a Story Angle

• The impact of European immigrants upon the agricultural economy of California and the United States.

• Each individual profiled in our Profiles section presents a unique story of the fulfilling of the "American Dream".

• The changing rural landscape - from a patchwork quilt of flower and citrus fields to housing developments, schools and high rises.

• The dramatic changes to the business landscape brought about by the arrival of imported flowers.

• How the flower industry flexed and adapted to change.

• California's early history.

• The yearning early California settlers experienced to make their surroundings more like "home," a yearning that led them to write home for seeds to be sent to them, that led them to plant and garden in a land where water was scarce and had to be carried from afar.

• The making of this book: Interviewing people from age 35 to 105, their stories and why they are important.