June 2023 - Issue #16
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PULSE PUBLICATIONS SENIORS, VETERANS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES
COTTAGE INDUSTRIES Cottage industry is a term I seem to hear more now than ever. Perhaps it is in part due to the pandemic, or maybe the hyperinflation and shortage of products. It isn’t a new term. In fact, before the Industrial Revolution, most products were produced this way. Products were made by businesses owned and operated by individuals, or families, from their homes, or cottages, hence the term “cottage industry.” Continue on page 8
LANCASTER
and California’s Superbloom In April of 2019, just a couple days after returning to Los Angeles from my three month trip to France, I drove about an hour north from LA to the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, just outside the city of Lancaster. This was my first time seeing the phenomenon known as the superbloom, where after a rainy winter, California experiences a huge blanket of colorful wildflowers highlighted by the golden poppy. After a few hours wandering the Reserve, which is run by California State Parks, I got back into my car and returned to LA. Lancaster itself was just a place I drove through, not to stop at all. Continue on page 24
Check out the events going on in our area this month.
A Chat About Parkinson´s - Page 5 News 4 Veterans- Page 10 A Nice Bit Of History - Page 11 POSTAL CUSTOMER
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