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Nancy's Bookshelf: Chico author Phil Elkins recounts his return from his year of military service in Vietnam

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Chico author Phil Elkins' life changed after his return from the Vietnam war. After his arrival, his Uncle Monty takes him to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the epicenter of the hippie movement in 1967, with the Summer of Love going on right before his eyes.

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Nancy Wiegman
Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
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Matt Fidler
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.
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