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When the wise and gentle hen, Gilda is coerced by her friends into getting a makeover, she gets depressed. But, she realizes that appearances are skin deep, and learns to play with her image instead of taking her own appearance seriously. She has more important things that she wants to do with her life.

Gilda is a buff Orpington hen, and a member of a close-knit neighborhood of like-minded "birds of a feather." Everything is fine on the block until Gilda gets a letter from her sister. Gilda's sister lives in a neighborhood some distance away, where customs are different than the buff's. Gilda's sister has come down with the deadly croup, and Gilda feels that she must go to her and do what she can to help. When Gilda arrives at her sister's house, Gilda does whatever her sister thinks will help her, even though her sister's customs are strange to her. When Gilda returns home, she is no longer...

Frank Putnam Flint began accruing ranches in the San Rafael foothills of La Canada during his term as a U.S. senator (1905-1911), initially with the purchase of the Turner Ranch. Flint's dream of an enclave for Republican society ended abruptly when his brother, Motley Flint, ensnared him in an entrepreneurial endeavor that became the infamous C. C. Julian petroleum scandal. This imbroglio overshadowed Frank Flint's myriad accomplishments, and he died aboard ship on a world cruise with his wife, Katherine, during the scandal's 1929 fallout. The memory of Flint's dream remains in Flintridge...

The city of La Canada Flintridge is made up of the nearly century-long communities of La Canada--once a mosaic of ranchlands honeycombed with vineyards and olive and citrus
groves--and Flintridge, an affluent enclave and health resort in the early 1900s. La Canada's various neighborhoods were renamed La Canada Flintridge during the city's incorporation in 1976. Known for its excellent schools and as a gateway to the Angeles National Forest, La Canada is also home to Descanso Gardens, an internationally known 165-acre botanical garden sold to Los Angeles County by former Los Angeles Daily...