Keeping up with the Joneses is an idiom meaning comparison to one’s neighbor as far as the accumulation of material things. It originally came from...
This is an excerpt from Neighbors: Oral History from Madera, California Volume 2 by Lawrence F. Lihosit, a local historian. It is available at Maildrop...
Madera County was a proving ground for pioneers. No phase of the westward movement is missing from its history. The explorers, trappers, miners, ranchers, and...
