It was October 2016 when Mike McCoy was appointed executive director of the Kern County Museum. "I got here and I heard from the community that the Chinese built Kern County. So we did the Joss House and a couple other things," McCoy recalled. "But people were still unhappy because they said the Okies and the Dust Bowlers built Kern County. So we did a Dust Bowl Exhibit, the Bakersfield Sound and Merle Haggard's boxcar house. And they were happy.
 
"So we have a house for the African Americans, the Pinkney House," he said, "and a house for the Jewish folks, which is the Weill House. "And we have two structures for Latinos, the Adobe and the Lopez-Hill House. Everybody's happy, right?