Local historian Terry Ommen likes to connect the dots.
His research often leads him to understand how the seeds of the past planted the fruits of the present. One of the most fertile eras for Tulare County was the Great Depression and the 1930s. It included rampant migration, social and natural catastrophes, and often the remedies to those problems with the advent of the social safety net.
Ommen plans to explore some of those events in his talk for “Tulare County Voices@210” with his program, “Voices from the Great Depression: Stories of Tulare County.”
The program will be from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 210, 210 W. Center Avenue in Visalia. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Ommen is Visalia’s preeminent storyteller of local history, and for this program, he is also seeking the stories that his audience can tell.