"This was Chinatown," he says, waving a hand toward a scrubby patch of land that once hummed to the rhythm of hundreds of laborers, empty now save for a sprinkling of bright orange poppies. The workers who lived here left their signature in pickax marks chiseled into the rocky bones of wine country. But few people know about the Chinese laborers who helped lay the foundations of California viticulture, planting vineyards, bridging creeks and digging caves. "No one knows that we were so much a...
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