The name Wells honored Madison P. Wells, local rancher. The town was renamed Keene in honor of James P. Keene, a financier. The UFW moved its national headquarters to Keene from Delano, California. C*sar Ch*vez spent his last years in Keene. The walls of his United Farm Workers office in Keene were lined with hundreds of books ranging in subject from philosophy, economics, cooperatives, and unions, to biographies of Gandhi and the Kennedys, The Kama Sutra, the memoirs of Che Guevara, and ``The Good German:
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