Although he had no patience for games or sports, the curious child took to nature at an early age, collecting bugs and exploring Lobos Creek all the way to Baker Beach and the sea cliffs leading to Lands End, " San Francisco's wildest and rockiest coast, a place strewn with shipwrecks and rife with landslides.

After the death of his wife, John Renty Baker became a recluse and lived in a rockhouse ( rockshelter ) near the mouth of Buffalo Creek and died there in 1820.

It was known as Baker's Hot Springs, after nearby Baker Creek.

In the 1950s and 1960s, he lived by himself at the old Baker ranch-house on Baker Creek near Big Pine.

Although small, it is notable as a southern gateway to Death Valley National Park ; in addition to being a junction of roads leading from Baker, California and Pahrump, Nevada, it has the last services available before the Furnace Creek area in the park.

Grovetown High School, Grovetown Middle School, Columbia Middle School, Grovetown Elementary School, Baker Place Elementary School, Brookwood Elementary School, Cedar Ridge Elementary School, Euchee Creek Elementary School, Columbia County Alternative School.

Mansfield is home to the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, on the grounds of Baker Creek Farm.

* Official website of the Bakersville Pioneer Village, a reconstructed late 19th-century village strip located at Baker Creek Farm just north of Mansfield

Additionally, when she first arrived in the county from the east-coast, Kate worked on the homestead she shared with her then-husband ( and later Concrete City Marshal ), Joe Glover, helping to " prove up " on their timber claim on the upper Baker River, near Bear Creek.

On March 9, 1878, the third day of the journey back to Lincoln, the Regulators killed McCloskey, Morton, and Baker in the Capitan foothills along the Blackwater Creek.

These Mingos had been living near the mouth of Yellow Creek, and had been lured to the cabin of Joshua Baker, a settler and rum trader who lived across the Ohio River from their village.

Other guest stars, both comedy and straight, have included: Steven Berkoff, Geoffrey McGivern, John Bluthal, Kate Isitt, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nigel Planer, Griff Rhys Jones, Hattie Hayridge, Alistair McGowan, Tamsin Greig, Katherine Parkinson, Colin Baker, Brian Murphy, Rebecca Front, Mary Tamm, Jim Bowen, Peter Davison, Maureen O ' Brien, Lysette Anthony, Mark Caven, Lorelei King, Geoffrey Beevers, Annette Crosbie, Rae Baker Doreen Mantle, Charlie Brooks, Maureen Lipman, Paul Blackthorne, Jimmi Harkishin, and Bill Bailey ( who was also pencilled as the original Jonathan Creek ).

* Baker Creek

Logan and his hunting party were camped on the west bank of the Ohio at Yellow Creek, about thirty miles above Wheeling ( near present day Steubenville, Ohio ) and across the river from Baker ’ s Bottom.

Turning southwest and then south, the Siletz receives Palmer Creek from the right, flows by Moonshine County Park, then receives Baker Creek and Mill Creek from the left before reaching Logsden, about from the mouth.

Passing under Rock Creek Road and receiving Rock Creek from the left, the river turns west again and soon receives Scott Creek from the right, Sam Creek from the left, and Bentilla and Baker creeks, both from the right.

The county is divided into thirteen townships: Badger, Baker, Denver, De Smet, Esmond, Hartland, Iroquois, Le Sueur, Manchester, Mathews, Spirit Lake, Spring Lake, and Whitewood.

Other communities include Elm Grove, Gatlinsville, Greens Cross, Hexlena, Perrytown, Pine Ridge, Sans Souci ( with Sans Souci Ferry, the county's only ferry ), Spring Branch, Trap, Woodard, Baker Town, Whites Cross, Rosemead, and Todds Cross.

* Spring 1997-Jonathan B. Baker Director, Bureau of Economics Federal Trade Commission on Product Differentiation

In 1980 Baker wrote Fatal Spring, a play for television dealing with lives of poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves ; this appeared on BBC 2 on 7 November 1980.

West Virginia Route 259 parallels the Cacapon River to its west along the eastern flank of Baker Mountain until the road turns east across the Kenneth Seldon Bridge at Yellow Spring.

In Spring 2005 EasyBus changed its London terminus from Hendon to a more central location in Baker Street.

Baker beat out the competition to earn the team's No. 5 starting spot out of Spring Training.

From 1982 the Terrassa Jazz Festival is specially outstanding, with guests like Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Tete Montoliu, Dizzy Gillespie ...

Still Pond Vineyard & Winery, a family-owned and operated Vineyard, bordering Baker County in southern region, hosts 3 festivals including a Bud Break Bash the first Saturday in April, a Grape Stomp the first Saturday in August, and a Holiday Festival the first Saturday in December.

In 1976, in what was to be Britten ’ s last Festival, Janet Baker sang the premiere of his dramatic cantata Phaedra in a festival that included performances by André Previn, Elizabeth Söderström, Richter and the entire Rostropovich family.

The Baker Buffalo Festival is held every year in Baker on the last full weekend in September.

The Festival was started in 1993 as a fundraiser for the schools in the Town of Baker.

Bach & Handel: Solo Cantatas & Vocal Works, Yehudi Menuhin, Bath Festival Orchestra, Janet Baker, EMI 1966

In later years, Baker rarely appeared on stage, and he only appeared professionally on stage in one Gilbert and Sullivan opera, at the Royal Festival Hall in a performance of Trial by Jury, when he was 81 years old.

At the Vancouver International Film Festival it received the $ 10, 000 CITY-TV award for Best Canadian Film and Noel Baker won the Rogers prize for Best Canadian Screenplay.

His commissions have included The Marshes of Glynn for the Royal opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham in 1986 ; Centenary Fire Dances for the City of Birmingham ’ s Centenary Festival of Fireworks and Music ; an Overture for the Three Choirs Festival ; songs for the Cantamus Girls Choir ; song cycles for mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker and tenor John Mitchinson for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 ; anthems for the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service ; Sonata for 8 Horns for the Horn Octet of the University of New Mexico ; Suite for 6 Horns for the Vienna Horn Society ; Song of the Eagle for the James Madison University Flute Choir of Virginia ; Concerto for Two Pianos for the Duo Scaramouche ; Sonata for 8 Pianists for soloists from France, Italy and Britain ; Mela Kamavardhani for performances by Indo-Jazz Fusions in Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay ; Fanfare for Madam Speaker, for the Installation of the Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP as Chancellor of the Open University in 1994 ; Concerto for Two Guitars for Simon Dinnigan and Fred T. Baker with Strings from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Concert Overture ' Towards a New Age ' for the 150th anniversary of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, premiered in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; and Suite for Brass Sextet for the Czech Philharmonic Brass Sextet.

Most recently he appeared in the premier of David Mamet ’ s November at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, with Nathan Lane, Dylan Baker, and Laurie Metcalf as well as playing the title character opposite Peter Dinklage in the all-male cast of " The Imaginary Invalid " for Bard College's SummerScape Festival 2012.

They performed at the 41st Annual New Orleans Jazz Festival in 2010, an event featuring Pearl Jam, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Lionel Richie, The Neville Brothers, Allman Brothers Band, and Anita Baker.

He was a close friend of Jim Baker, and co-led the parade of Denver's Festival of Mountain and Plain with Baker in 1895.

Baker attended the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival and returned home with big plans — to replicate the event in San Antonio.

Baker ( 1910-2006 ), the Festival ’ s founder and director from 1972 – 75, was a dedicated and inspirational leader in constructing this phenomenal event that has received countless international, regional and local awards.

By 1975 Mover was working regularly in New York City jazz clubs with Chet Baker and he made his first European appearances with Baker at La Grande Parade du Jazz in ( Nice, France ), Jazz Festival Laren ( Holland ), and the Middleheim Jazz Festival ( Antwerp, Belgium ).

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Graham was associated with several recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan operas conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and principals including George Baker.

The 2008 St Lucia Jazz Festival featured international artists such as Wyclef Jean, Anita Baker, Angie Stone and Dionne Warwick.

They have also performed with the William Baker Festival Singers and have annual fall performances with the Woodstock High School Varsity Singers.