Hillingers California, Charles Hillinger
Hillingers California, Charles Hillinger
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Hillinger's California

Author: Charles Hillinger

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007


Synopsis

The California that Charles Hillinger writes about is not the stereotypical land of movie stars, sensational trials, or tourist snapshots. Instead, he reveals a patchwork of incredible variety and uniqueness in the outoftheway places and everyday people found throughout this remarkable state. As a Los Angeles Times columnist who wrote thousands of humaninterest stories during fortysix years of traveling the world, Charles Hillinger hones in on what makes each of Californias counties different from the others. Listeners learn about the man who flew an airplane long before the Wright Brothers did, the church with stainedglass windows commemorating preachers who were murdered or accidentally killed, and the museum with the largest collection of mummies on the West Coast. The stories are downtoearth without excessive sentiment or philosophy.

About Charles Hillinger

Charles Hillinger, a graduate of UCLA, roamed California, America, and the world for forty-five years writing some six thousand human-interest stories for the Los Angeles Times. His features and column were syndicated in more than six hundred newspapers. He is one of the creators of the television show Real People. He and his wife live in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles on October 25, 2014

For years on American TV Charles Osgood narrated small gems. Human interest stories that sounded like pure honey. Another TV reporter of this type if material, mostly about California, was Huell Howser. In print, in the LA Times, was Charles Hillinger. The material in this collection is not my favo......more

Goodreads review by Drea on March 27, 2019

Needed a better editor as many of the stories abruptly end or circle back on themselves. However, this was still an awesome read and I've got a lot of places on my travel wish list now.......more

Goodreads review by Linda on June 09, 2021

I first read this in 2010. Here's my first review: I loved this book. It was one of the first audiobooks I ever bought from Audible.com, and I listened to it while I took my daily walks in the Klamath River Valley of Northern California, where I lived at the time. Charles Hillinger was a Los Angeles......more