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Nancy's Bookshelf: Two former Chico State professors look back at very different times in California history

Tony Waters is czar and editor of Ethnography.com. He is a Professor in the Sociology department at California State University Chico, where he has been a professor since 1996. He is also the translator of The Man from Bangkokby Thai author Rong Wongsavun about his travels in California and San Francisco in particular.

Also, Michele Shover recounts how Chico's Chapman town got its name, as told in her book Chico's Chapmans and a new segment from The Writer's Room.

Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.