Heroes & Heroines
Profile: Bob Culbertson, Watsonville Wetlands Watch
This area of California has been blessed by some extraordinary people and one of them has spent most of his lifetime in a valiant effort to protect our Wetlands. If you ever travel on Highway 1 through Watsonville, just off the freeway you’ll find a beautiful natural landscape teeming with plants and wildlife. Although few […]
Profile: Les Williams, Tuskegee Airman
Les Williams was one of World War II’s famed Tuskegee Airmen, a small group of African American combat pilots during World War II. In 2007, Williams and other Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for their service. He is a longtime resident of San Mateo.
Profile: Jean Harman, W.A.S.P.
84-year-old Jean Harman first took to the skies as a seven-year-old child. Inspired by Amila Earhardt, she went on to get her pilot’s license at 18 and then later served as a WASP during World War II, ferrying North American AT-6’s.
Profile: Roy Diaz
Emmy Award winning story about a Bataan Death March survivor, Sgt. Roy Diaz from Salinas, CA.
Profile: Jeremiah Ridgeway
Jeremiah Ridgeway, a US Army Calvary Scout with the 10th Mountain Division, served 15 months in combat in Afghanistan. During that time he was able to take some remarkable photographs. One of which, was published in National Geographic.
Profile: Sylvia Mclaughlin
Join us as we profile activist and environmentalist Sylvia McLaughlin, one of the founders of Save the Bay and the driving force behind keeping and saving one of the world’s great estuaries.
Profile: Barbara Erickson London, WWII Pilot
Barbara Erickson London was in the vanguard of female pilots during WWII and by the age of 21 she was flying fighter planes as a squadron commander. Barbara was the first woman to fly a P-47 and she received an Air Medal for her service during the war — the only WASP to receive the […]
