The 2024 edition, Ten Thousand Suns, is a celebratory display that ‘refuses to concede to apocalyptic visions of the future’ – but is that possible right now.

Growing up in Brawley, Calif., in the ’50s and ’60s — then a farmland sprawl of alfalfa, sugar beet, lettuce and sweet corn crops — Walter Francis Ulloa was an athletic kid.