

8th graders and Madera’s Overcomers
For The Madera Tribune Tenisha Armstrong, Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Stanford University, stands beside her mother,...
Bill Coate
Feb 17, 2021


They shot Medgar Evers
For The Madera Tribune The Rev. Naaman Haynes. On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers pulled into his driveway at Decatur, Mississippi, after...
Bill Coate
Feb 13, 2021


Being With The People: Leningrad 1989
For The Madera Tribune In 1989, Kirk Edwards, a 1973 MHS graduate had an experience unique to any Madera native. He traveled as a member...
Bill Coate
Feb 13, 2021


Judge Lynch once ruled Madera County
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society This photograph of Spring Valley School in O’Neals was taken in 1894, one year after...
Bill Coate
Feb 10, 2021


Bigelow went from stagecoaches to telephones
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Long before Friant Dam, pictured here, stretched across the San Joaquin River, Harmon...
Bill Coate
Feb 6, 2021


Eighth graders explore Madera’s Black History
For The Madera Tribune Chief Warrant Officer Kirk Edwards is a native of Madera and a 1973 graduate of Madera High School. Students in...
Bill Coate
Feb 3, 2021


Rev. Naaman Haynes carried the torch of freedom
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society This photo of the Haynes family includes Rev. Haynes, his mother, and all of his...
Bill Coate
Feb 3, 2021


April 5, 1913: First airplane landing in Madera
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society Daredevil D.E. Francis thrills the crowd with the first take off and landing of an...
Bill Coate
Jan 30, 2021









