If they ever make a Netflix series about the persistent, pioneering family whose fortune was built in this big valley on a certain edible root crop, they'll want to cast a Barbara Stanwyck-type in the lead.
This latter-day Stanwyck would portray Barbara Grimm-Marshall, wife of Rod Grimm, the late Grimmway Farms co-founder — or so suggests Manuel Cunha, president of the Fresno-based Nisei Farmers League and would-be casting director of our fantasy epic.
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