Columnist David Domeniconi has researched close-to-home topics for his new book, "G is for Golden: A California Alphabet." This is David's first children's book and it contains 40 pages of entertaining and educational facts about California.

David captures California on so many fronts - its natural history, social sciences, inventors, and even its forty-niners. On the T is for Television page, the reader discovers Philo Farnsworth, a 21-year-old farmer who gleaned the idea to transmit the world's first television picture by looking at the patterns in the rows he had plowed in his field....