Lompico, California | interesting place, CDP - Census Designated Place

USA / California / Ben Lomond /
 interesting place, CDP - Census Designated Place
Jerry Garcia's family owned a house in Lompico and it was in Lompico, at the age of four, where Jerry had his right middle finger chopped off by his brother. His brother Tiff was chopping wood, and Jerry may have been fooling around when he failed to move his finger fast enough from the descending ax blade. Jerry mostly remembered the shock of a buzzing sound vibrating in his ears during the drive to the local doctor's office. Unfortunately, reattachment, common today, was apparently not an option then for Jerry was surprised to discover that he had lost two thirds of his middle finger when the bandages came off in the bathtub sometime later. Jerry Garcia's brother, Tiff, put the incident clearly, "We'd been given a chore to do...he'd hold the wood and I'd chop it. He was screwing around and I was just constantly chopping." Local legend has it that Jerry Garcia's finger is still somewhere in Lompico.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lompico,_California
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Coordinates:   37°6'5"N   122°3'2"W

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