For The Madera Tribune This drawing of Kirk Edwards was done by a member of the Russian band while Edwards was in Leningrad with the...

For The Madera Tribune A Russian-American concert. CWO Edwards is pictured, fourth from left, in a blue uniform. The Leningrad Military...

For The Madera Tribune Tenisha Armstrong, Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Stanford University, stands beside her mother,...

For The Madera Tribune The Rev. Naaman Haynes. On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers pulled into his driveway at Decatur, Mississippi, after...

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...

Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society This photograph of Spring Valley School in O’Neals was taken in 1894, one year after...

Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Long before Friant Dam, pictured here, stretched across the San Joaquin River, Harmon...

For The Madera Tribune Chief Warrant Officer Kirk Edwards is a native of Madera and a 1973 graduate of Madera High School. Students in...