There are certain images that are so iconic to my upbringing that when I'm in their vicinity, I'm reminded what a happy youth I had growing up in Duarte and running up into and along the San Gabriel Foothills (Fish Canyon Falls, Van Tassel, Rincon, East & West Fork, & Crystal Lake) and the riverbed and the SG Canyon or Hwy 39 hiking & fishing. That was a great, adventurous, life explored with great friends and family.
This park wasn't always a park with Duarte's Museum. It was an empty field when we were kids. And, in fact, there's one memory that stands out when Tom and Joe were walking along El Encanto Parkway, parallel to the field, when they came across a dead body. So this field has a history that the new immigrants to the area would be shocked by.
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