A vivid journey through California\'s vast rural interior, The Heart of California weaves the story of historian Frank Latta\'s forgotten 1938 boat trip from Bakersfield to San Francisco with Aaron Gilbreath \'s trip retracing Latta\'s route by car during the 2014 drought.
Gilbreath made his own trip to profile Latta and the productive agricultural world that damming has created i.
Latta embarked on his journey to publicize the need for dams and levees to improve flood control.
A vivid journey through California\'s vast rural interior, The Heart of California weaves the story of historian Frank Latta\'s forgotten 1938 boat trip from Bakersfield to San Francisco with Aaron Gilbreath \'s trip retracing Latta\'s route by car during the 2014 drought
