MILEPOSTS #1042

By Bill Pumford, Image from ROWHS Collection TITLE: CAMP MOZUMDAR IN CEDARPINES PARK — PART I: Many people have heard of Mozumdar, but few have visited Camp Mozumdar and fewer yet know much about the man who started it all. Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar was born in India in 1881 to a higher caste family, which …

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MILEPOSTS #1034

By Ken Brafman, Image from ROWHS Collection TITLE: Francis Lebaron Talmadge – Pioneer: Early explorers and mountaineers were a special breed of rugged, courageous, adventuresome and determined men. One of these men, Francis Talmadge, would become patriarch to a logging and cattle ranching dynasty that would last some 80 years. In 1853, at age 23, …

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