From the Ashes of Fruit Trees Grew Today\'s Silicon Valley Thousands of cookie-cutter homes for high-tech workers sprouted from the funeral pyres of a vanishing way of life as acres of lush fruit trees were bulldozed and burned to create today\'s Silicon Valley.
One of the children who Grew up in this new suburbia in San Jose, California, was Tom Liggett, a neglected, unwanted child of dysfunctional (that\'s being kind) parents, who befriended the "witch" who li.
From the Ashes of Fruit Trees Grew Today\'s Silicon Valley Thousands of cookie-cutter homes for high-tech workers sprouted from the funeral pyres of a vanishing way of life as acres of lush fruit trees were bulldozed and burned to create today\'s Silicon Valley