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Candy Town - an unseen marvel

Once upon a time, during the June-July weeks of summer, a Candy Town utopia existed in Bakersfield. Architects designed it without drawing plans, built it from scratch without seeing what they were doing and never knew what their finished city looked like. After July 10, it existed no more. Yet, during the time it was being built and for the week or so after its completion, it was the most exciting city in the lives of 10 children. All of the children were visually impaired students in the Hart School summer class of Kern County Superintendent of Schools teacher Esthella Brewer, who is herself visually challenged. Beginning about two weeks before summer school started, they had already started planning their magical miniature town. Three large container boxes were flattened to provide the land on which the building would take place. Streets were mapped out with masking tape. More
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