John Anthony Adams

John Anthony Adams is a third-generation Southern California orange grower. He is the Historian of the Rialto Historical Society. He has a Ph.D. in soil science from the University of California at Riverside and worked for years as a scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. He is the author of 7 books, including Dirt, a popularized book about soil, Dangling from the Golden Gate Bridge and Other Narrow Escapes, a collection of very unusual narrow escapes from death, Rialto, a photo...See more

John Anthony Adams is a third-generation Southern California orange grower. He is the Historian of the Rialto Historical Society. He has a Ph.D. in soil science from the University of California at Riverside and worked for years as a scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. He is the author of 7 books, including Dirt, a popularized book about soil, Dangling from the Golden Gate Bridge and Other Narrow Escapes, a collection of very unusual narrow escapes from death, Rialto, a photo history of Rialto California, Ronnie's Nine Lives (co-author), a hilarious collection of stories about growing up in the 50s and 60s, The Little Girl in the Window, a collection of Rialto ghost stories, Then and Now: The Vanishing Orange in Southern California, a nostalgic look back at the glorious days of orange growing in Southern California, and Scammers, Schemers, and Dreamers: The Turbulent History of Early Rialto, a history of Rialto, California based on a large collection of new discoveries about Rialto's past. See less