A school district found out about an apple farmer's controversial tweets. He sued when they canceled their field trips
OAK GLEN, Calif. - A dense fog hung over James Riley's homestead in this apple-growing community as the platoon of buses, carrying 150 mostly Latino and black fifth-graders, pulled up.
Here in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, about 80 miles from downtown L.A., the 59-year-old Riley and his employees grow fruit and vegetables through most of the year. But their main crop is living history: musical theater, educational workshops and historical re-enactments of everything from the Gold Rush era to the Civil War - all centered on a mock 1770s-era New England town that Riley designed.
College-age actors in three-cornered hats and bonnets, nattering away in faux-British accents, teach life lessons from the Revolutionary War: how to spool thread, roll a hoop with a stick and
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