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SUMMARY:Santa Monica Pier: America’s Last Great Pleasure Pier
DESCRIPTION:In Santa Monica Pier: America’s Last Great Pleasure Pier! historian James Harris tells the dramatic story of survival for this Southern California icon—fighting Mother Nature\, politics and changing times. This rich history makes Santa Monica Pier more than a landmark\, more than a pleasure pier or a must see on the West Coast. \nFor a hundred years the Pier has represented the link between people and the Pacific\, a connection to all that’s possible\, probable and worthy of dreams. \nTake a ride on the Carousel. Take a dip on the coaster. Or just take a stroll on the deck. There’s something for everyone on the Santa Monica Pier. A classic pleasure pier with a certain je ne sais quoi\, it attracts crowds of visitors from all over the world. \nJoin us to share in the history of this Southern California gem—it’s the closest you can get to going to the pier without actually being there. \nAn in-person presentation by James Harris\, author and historian
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/santa-monica-pier-americas-last-great-pleasure-pier/
LOCATION:Pasadena Heritage\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240610T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240610T183000
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SUMMARY:Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History
DESCRIPTION:From a book’s “spine” to its “appendix\,” bibliographers use a language of the body that reveals our intimate connection with books. Yet books do more than describe bodies—they embody a frontline of colonization in which Indigenous authors battle the public perception and reception of Indigenous peoples. Starting with John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (1854) as the first novel to be published in the newly formed state of California and the first novel published by a Native author\, Amy Gore calls attention to the negotiations between books and bodies embedded within Indigenous literary history. Bringing Indigenous book history more firmly into conversations with mainstream narratives about the history of the book\, her research claims books themselves as a source of embodied power for early Native American authors. \nA virtual presentation by Amy Gore\, author and assistant professor of English\, North Dakota State University
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/book-anatomy-body-politics-and-the-materiality-of-indigenous-book-history/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240610T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240610T183000
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SUMMARY:Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy\, 1836-1932
DESCRIPTION:Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836–1932)\, an American newspaperwoman\, feminist\, suffragist\, abolitionist\, and social reformer. She used her fortune to support women’s education\, the labor movement\, and public access to science\, the arts\, and education. \nBorn in London\, Scripps grew up in rural poverty on the Illinois prairie. She went from rags to riches\, living out that cherished American story in which people pull themselves up by their bootstraps with audacity\, hard work\, and luck. She and her brother\, E. W. Scripps\, built America’s largest chain of newspapers\, linking midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West. Less well known today than the papers started by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst\, Scripps newspapers transformed their owners into millionaires almost overnight. \nBy the 1920s Scripps was worth an estimated $30 million\, most of which she gave away. She established the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla\, California\, and appeared on the cover of Time magazine after founding Scripps College in Claremont\, California. She also provided major financial support to organizations worldwide that promised to advance democratic principles and public education. \nIn Ellen Browning Scripps\, McClain brings to life an extraordinary woman who played a vital role in the history of women\, California\, and the American West. \nA virtual presentation by Molly McClain\, author and professor of History\, University of San Diego
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/ellen-browning-scripps-new-money-and-american-philanthropy-1836-1932/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240513T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240513T183000
DTSTAMP:20240426T171954Z
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SUMMARY:Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:The Los Angeles shoreline is one of the most iconic natural landscapes in the United States\, if not the world. Yet\, in the early twentieth century Angelenos routinely lamented the city’s crowded\, polluted\, and eroded sands\, many of which were private and inaccessible to the public. \nBetween the 1920s and the 1960s\, LA’s engineers\, city officials\, urban planners\, and business elite worked together to transform the relatively untouched beaches into modern playgrounds for the white middle class. \nAs they opened up vast public spaces for many Angelenos to express themselves\, show off their bodies\, and forge alternative communities\, they made clear that certain groups of beachgoers\, including African Americans\, gay men and women\, and bodybuilders\, were no longer welcome. \nSand Rush not only uncovers how the Los Angeles coastline was constructed but also how this major planning and engineering project affected the lives of ordinary city-dwellers and attracted many Americans to move to Southern California. \nA virtual presentation by Elsa Devienne\, author and assistant professor in US History\, Northumbria University\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, England
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/sand-rush-the-revival-of-the-beach-in-twentieth-century-los-angeles/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240508T193000
DTSTAMP:20240426T171652Z
CREATED:20240426T171650Z
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SUMMARY:Terminal Island: Lost Communities on America’s Edge
DESCRIPTION:Terminal lsland: Lost Communities on America’s Edge tells a story of the birth\, flourishing\, and ultimate destruction of Terminal Island\, a vibrant community in Los Angeles Harbor. \nFew Los Angelenos have visited Terminal Island\, a sheltered spot in the Pacific Ocean that once served as a resort for wealthy Southern California landowners and as a refuge for its artists and writers and scientists\, all in need of a respite from the heat of the city. Not long after the rich and creative were driven away by a greedy throng of industrialists and railroad magnates and the politics they wrought\, Terminal Island became home to another thriving world\, this time a small community of Japanese families\, people linked by their lineage and their amazing ability to capture the biggest fish the Pacific had to offer. They were the fishermen of Terminal Island. And their wives. And their children. These people were at the heart of one of Southern California’s most important businesses: the fisheries. \nAnd then came a war. A world war that devastated the hopes\, dreams\, homes\, and families of the Japanese who lived on Terminal Island. The Japanese and Japanese American residents of the island were forced from their homes and sent to internment camps around the country. The island became\, in the truest\, deepest sense\, a ghost town. \nAn in-person presentation by Naomi Hirahara\, writer\, journalist\, and author
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/terminal-island-lost-communities-on-americas-edge/
LOCATION:Pasadena Heritage\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240429T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240429T183000
DTSTAMP:20240330T170831Z
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SUMMARY:California\, a Slave State
DESCRIPTION:California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California’s carceral state. Kidnapped Chinese girls were sold in caged brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied new farms and hotels with unfree child workers. \nBy looking west to California\, Jean Pfaelzer upends our understanding of slavery as a North-South struggle and reveals how the enslaved in California fought\, fled\, and resisted human bondage. In unyielding research and vivid interviews\, Pfaelzer exposes how California gorged on slavery\, an appetite that persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs but who instead are imprisoned in sweatshops and remote marijuana grows\, or sold as nannies and sex workers. \nA virtual presentation by Jean Pfaelzer\, author and professor emerita of English and American Studies\, University of Delaware
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/california-a-slave-state/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240415T183000
DTSTAMP:20240330T170613Z
CREATED:20240330T170612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240330T170613Z
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SUMMARY:Mud\, Blood\, and Ghosts: Populism\, Eugenics\, and Spiritualism in the American West
DESCRIPTION:An archive survives to be revived. The archive as a limit\, a thing in a box\, is always also an opening. It opens on losses sustained\, harms inflicted\, the tenacity of survival\, and on the persistence of lineages both proud and shameful. But what is it to approach an archive\, to unlock the cabinet\, lift the top off the box\, to begin to read? It is to invite a haunting\, which nevertheless begins long before we open any books. And to invite the ghosts into the open\, one must be ready to hear what they teach. \nReading from her new book\, Mud\, Blood\, and Ghosts\, and screening a short film by Carolina Ebeid that engages archival images\, Julie Carr will tell the story of her great-grandfather\, Omer Madison Kem\, a settler in Nebraska\, a founding member of the Populist Party\, a three-term Congressman\, a practicing spiritualist\, and an avid eugenicist. Kem’s final years were spent in Oregon where he owned a power company and became a passionate advocate for the forced sterilization of all those he came to believe were “unfit” to breed. This talk will focus on the ties between the American eugenics movement\, American populism\, and the American West. \nA virtual presentation by Julie Carr\, author and professor of English\, University of Colorado\, Boulder
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/mud-blood-and-ghosts-populism-eugenics-and-spiritualism-in-the-american-west/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240408T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240408T183000
DTSTAMP:20240330T170241Z
CREATED:20240330T170239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240330T170241Z
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SUMMARY:California and Reframing the Making of a Modern U.S. West
DESCRIPTION:A central theme of Making a Modern U.S. West by Sarah Deutsch is the question of what would constitute a modern U.S. and whose vision would define the West and the nation. Modernity for some meant corporate consolidation\, capital intensive agriculture\, white supremacy\, male-headed families and private individual land-holding. For others\, modernity could include racial mixing\, transnational mobility\, economic democracy\, and collective ownership of land. Californians ran the full spectrum of these ideas—they fought over redwoods and irrigation\, they speculated on land and oil\, they fought over the border and who belonged on which side\, and even over who should get a say in all those things—and in doing so\, they helped define modernity for the region and the nation. \nThis presentation will address some of those issues as well as how the author tried to corral these unwieldy decades into a single volume. \nA virtual presentation by Sarah Deutsch\, author and professor of history\, Duke University
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/california-and-reframing-the-making-of-a-modern-u-s-west/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240402T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240402T200000
DTSTAMP:20240330T165941Z
CREATED:20240330T165938Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening at the Quasi-Library
DESCRIPTION:Join guest librarian Alex Balgiu (Designing Writing)\, alongside Rachel Julius and Bob Dirig (ArtCenter Library) for an immersive and tactile happening where attendees will interact directly with the diverse array of books and printed materials on display. \n** Co-presented by Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography and ArtCenter Graphic Design
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/an-evening-at-the-quasi-library/
LOCATION:ArtCenter College of Design\, 1111 South Arroyo Parkway\, Pasadena\, 91105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240318T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240318T193000
DTSTAMP:20240203T052418Z
CREATED:20240203T052417Z
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SUMMARY:Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California
DESCRIPTION:An essential piece in California Studies\, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of California’s most ambitious interpreter. While Starr’s multifaceted and polymathic vision of California offered a unique gaze—synthesizing central features\, big themes\, and incredible problems with the propitious golden dream—his eight-volume California Dream series\, along with several other books and thousands of published articles and essays\, often puzzled historians and other scholars. Historians in the contemporary school of critical historiography often found Starr’s narrative approach—seeking to tell the internal drama of the California story—to be less attuned to the most important work happening in the field. Such a perspective fails to acknowledge key developments in historical subfields like Black and African American Studies\, Chicana/o/x Studies\, Asian Studies\, Native Studies\, and others that draw from the narrative in their critical work and how this relates to Starr’s contribution. Along with being a major figure in California institutional life\, with literary output spanning genres\, it is through the lens of his lived experience as a devout Catholic that this critical sociological perspective sheds new light on his project. With contributions from sociology\, history\, and theology\, akin to investigations appearing in Theology and California: Theological Refractions on California’s Culture (Routledge)\, Redemptive Dreams offers interdisciplinary perspectives that highlight key features inherent in interdisciplinary theological reflection on place and illuminates these diverse disciplinary discourses as they appear in Starr’s articulation of the California Dream. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Jason S. Sexton\, author and professor of sociology at University of California\, Los Angeles \n  \n 
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/redemptive-dreams-engaging-kevin-starrs-california/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T193000
DTSTAMP:20240203T052137Z
CREATED:20240203T052136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240203T052137Z
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SUMMARY:Clubhouse Turn: The Twilight of Hollywood Park Race Track
DESCRIPTION:On December 22\, 2013\, Hollywood Park Racetrack closed its doors permanently.\n\nComprising 500 photographs culled from more than 25\,000 taken on location\, Clubhouse Turn (2013-2016) is the final documentation of the historic landmark before its demolition. It is a portrait of not only the architecture and grounds of Hollywood Park\, but of those individuals whose livelihood and identities were dependent upon it: a portrait of a quickly vanishing Los Angeles.\n\n\n\n\nConstructed on a swampy landmass in Inglewood\, Hollywood Park Racetrack was envisioned by entertainment moguls. Inglewood welcomed the executives\, who had been excluded from other venues due to prejudice. The first turn on a racetrack immediately after the finish line\, known as the clubhouse turn\, is considered to be the best vantage point to see the finish of the race and is therefore where the privileged sit. Built with the values of a bygone era and the mythologies of the track\, Hollywood Park was a place where the privileged and disenfranchised co-mingled; it epitomized the social complexity of a place of fantasy and dreams\, winning and losing. Clubhouse Turn strives to produce a pictorial record of the inevitable amalgamation of imagined and actual realities\, environment and circumstance. By grouping the images into framed constructions\, the work functions like memory—consolidating\, diffusing\, and reorganizing what has now disappeared. \n\n\n\nAn in-person presentation by Michele Asselin\, editorial photographer and author
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/clubhouse-turn-the-twilight-of-hollywood-park-race-track/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T193000
DTSTAMP:20240203T051906Z
CREATED:20240203T051905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240203T051906Z
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SUMMARY:Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim\, The Great West\, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
DESCRIPTION:When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915\, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations\, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco\, California\, and the United States at the world’s fair. The PPIE encapsulated the social and political tensions and conflicts of pre–World War I California and presaged the emergence of San Francisco as a cosmopolitan cultural and economic center of the Pacific Rim. \nEmpress San Francisco offers a fresh examination of this\, one of the largest and most influential world’s fairs\, by considering the local social and political climate of Progressive Era San Francisco. Focusing on the influence exerted by women\, Asians and Asian Americans\, and working-class labor unions\, among others\, Abigail M. Markwyn offers a unique analysis both of this world’s fair and the social construction of pre–World War I America and the West. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Abigail M. Markwyn\, author and professor of history at Carroll University
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/empress-san-francisco-the-pacific-rim-the-great-west-and-california-at-the-panama-pacific-international-exposition/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T193000
DTSTAMP:20240203T051631Z
CREATED:20240203T051630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240203T051631Z
UID:10000956-1709573400-1709580600@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:Bibliophiles Beware: The Situationist International and the Art & Politics of Cultural Hijacking
DESCRIPTION:Active between 1957 and 1972\, The Situationist International (S.I.) was a revolutionary alliance of artists\, intellectuals\, architects and political theorists that is hailed as the “last avant-garde” of the 20th century. One of the organization’s core concepts is that of détournement\, which can be understood as the subversion of established cultural commodities as a means of propaganda. This exhibition presents numerous examples of this innovative practice\, from artist books to comic strips\, and from leaflets to maps. In doing so\, it also attempts to retrace the history of a movement that maintained an ambiguous relationship with their own material productions. \nExhibition opening and remarks by Mehdi El Hajoui\, private collector.
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/bibliophiles-beware-the-situationist-international-and-the-art-politics-of-cultural-hijacking/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T193000
DTSTAMP:20240106T024554Z
CREATED:20240106T024553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T024554Z
UID:10000932-1707759000-1707766200@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:The Life\, Motto\, and Library of William Walker (1570-1642)\, Vicar of Chiswick
DESCRIPTION:Approximately twenty-five printed books and ten manuscripts have been located from before 1640 which bear the florid inscription: “Will and Walke aright. Will: Walker\,” usually appearing on the title-page of a printed book\, or on the first or last leaf of a manuscript. \nThis talk will attempt to identify the author of the inscription and the owner of the books and manuscripts in new detail; to reconstruct William Walker’s small but unquestionably significant personal library; and to trace the history of the “best” manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney’s “Old Arcadia.” \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Alan H. Nelson\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of English\, University of California\, Berkeley \n** Co-presented and co-hosted by The American Trust for the British Library and The Bibliographical Society of America **
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-life-motto-and-library-of-william-walker-1570-1642-vicar-of-chiswick/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240129T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240129T193000
DTSTAMP:20240106T024333Z
CREATED:20240106T024332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T024333Z
UID:10000931-1706549400-1706556600@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:Print Your Own Broadside Affair
DESCRIPTION:Letterpress print your own broadside on the Book Club’s Colombian hand press with Li Jiang\, Lemoncheese Press. \nA limited number of broadsides will be printed. Registration required.
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/print-your-own-broadside-affair-2/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T193000
DTSTAMP:20240106T024136Z
CREATED:20240106T024135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T024136Z
UID:10000930-1705512600-1705519800@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:The Newly Discovered Notebook of Isaac Newton
DESCRIPTION:The Cambridge University Library recently purchased a previously unknown notebook kept by Isaac Newton’s chamber-fellow\, John Wickins\, in the years around 1680. It is possible to identify the contents of the notebook as being previously unknown compositions and correspondence of Isaac Newton\, which shed light on many aspects of his work and his engagement with the University in which he was employed. \nAs part of the preparation of an edition of the notebook\, the evidence that it provides for Newton’s reading habits has been extensively investigated and this talk will describe that evidence and the conclusions that can be drawn from it and from other sources to trace changes in Newton’s habits of study at a critical juncture in the development of his thought. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Scott Mandelbrote\, Fellow\, Director of Studies in History\, and Perne and Ward Librarian\, at Peterhouse\, University of Cambridge\, UK. He is also the editorial director of the Newton Project. \n** Co-presented and co-hosted by The American Trust for the British Library and The Bibliographical Society of America **
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-newly-discovered-notebook-of-isaac-newton/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T193000
DTSTAMP:20240106T023836Z
CREATED:20240106T023835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T023836Z
UID:10000929-1704907800-1704915000@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:The Orange and the Dream of California
DESCRIPTION:The Orange and the Dream of California takes a lively\, literary\, and extraordinarily visual look at the symbiotic and highly symbolic relationship between the Golden State and its “golden apple.” Untold thousands of adventurers and health-seekers came West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century\, lured by postcards of orange blossoms juxtaposed to snow-capped mountains. Orange juice became the way to start every day after Sunkist spread the word that drinking a California orange was not only as sweet and delicious as eating one\, but held the promise to a healthy life. The orange became a symbol of everything California promised\, and California became the center of the Orange Empire. \nIn 176 full-color pages and more than 250 images\, author David Boulé shares the absorbing story of the orange and its impact on the culture—historic\, financial\, artistic\, and even romantic—of California. And\, he tells the tale of citriculture\, the complex\, captivating\, and controversial world of growing the orange. \nAn in-person presentation by David Boulé\, author and historian
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-orange-and-the-dream-of-california/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231204T193000
DTSTAMP:20231102T214420Z
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SUMMARY:A Collection of Early English Books: Reading in the Age of Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Paul Chrzanowski’s presentation explores “books that Shakespeare might have read.” He donated his collection of nearly 150 early English books to the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The earliest printed work is Cordyal of the four last and final things\, a book printed in 1479 by William Caxton\, England’s first printer. The donation includes early literary works by Geoffrey Chaucer\, John Gower\, John Lydgate\, and William Langland; English translations of classical works; pre-Reformation Catholic treatises and English Bibles; English chronicles; Shakespeare source books; works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries; and a wide variety of books read by English men and women through the long 16 th century. \nThrough the period of interest—from Caxton to Shakespeare—England made the remarkable transition from a late medieval society and late-Middle English to a mercantile\, sea-faring nation and the works of William Shakespeare. This transition is reflected in the books that were printed and read. Works of Catholic devotion change to the Bible in English and John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments. Chronicles remind readers of the 15 th -century War of Roses and extoll the glories of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. The modern novel begins to emerge through the works of George Gascoigne\, William Painter’s translations of Italian novellas\, and Robert Greene’s pastorals. English readers kept up with current events and learned new skills. \nThe collection includes copies of the second and fourth folio editions of Shakespeare’s collected plays (1632 and 1685); plays extracted from the first and third folios; Robert Allott’s England’s Parnassus (1600) with Shakespeare excerpts; and a quarto play\, Parts 2 and 3 of Henry the Sixth (1619). The presentation is not focused on these works. Rather it introduces books on wide-ranging topics that illustrate readers’ interests at the time—highlighting from the collection books of importance\, books of great rarity\, books with special provenance\, and oddities. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Paul Chrzanowski\, book collector\, with remarks from Drew Nadall \n* Co-presented and co-hosted by American Trust for the British Library and the Bibliographical Society of America
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/a-collection-of-early-english-books-reading-in-the-age-of-shakespeare/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231108T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231108T193000
DTSTAMP:20231102T214114Z
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SUMMARY:Karmiole Endowed Lecture: Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores and Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:After resigning from his sales position at William Doxey’s bookstore in San Francisco’s famous Palace Hotel in 1897\, a young Paul Elder opened his own shop two blocks away. Elder’s goal was a bookstore with a carefully crafted ambience\, reflecting his embrace of the California Arts & Crafts Movement. Elder’s own publications were often designed with the same Arts & Crafts aesthetic. This talk will present a tour of Elder’s San Francisco bookstores\, as he persevered through the 1906 Earthquake and Fire\, helped to revitalize downtown\, and celebrated the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. \nAn in-person presentation by David Mostardi\, book collector\, curator\, and historian
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/karmiole-endowed-lecture-paul-elder-a-literary-life-in-seven-bookstores-and-exhibition-opening-2/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231106T193000
DTSTAMP:20231102T201248Z
CREATED:20231102T201247Z
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SUMMARY:Karmiole Endowed Lecture: Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores and Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:After resigning from his sales position at William Doxey’s bookstore in San Francisco’s famous Palace Hotel in 1897\, a young Paul Elder opened his own shop two blocks away. Elder’s goal was a bookstore with a carefully crafted ambience\, reflecting his embrace of the California Arts & Crafts Movement. Elder’s own publications were often designed with the same Arts & Crafts aesthetic. This talk will present a tour of Elder’s San Francisco bookstores\, as he persevered through the 1906 Earthquake and Fire\, helped to revitalize downtown\, and celebrated the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. \nExhibition opening with an in-person and virtual presentation by David Mostardi\, book collector\, curator\, and historian
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/karmiole-endowed-lecture-paul-elder-a-literary-life-in-seven-bookstores-and-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231030T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231030T183000
DTSTAMP:20230831T211923Z
CREATED:20230831T211922Z
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SUMMARY:The Poison Book Project: Arsenic & Other Heavy Metals in 19th-C. Bookbinding
DESCRIPTION:The Poison Book Project investigates potentially toxic pigments used in the manufacture of Victorian-era bookcloth. Lead scientist Dr. Rosie Grayburn will situate the use of English bookcloth colored with highly poisonous emerald green pigment and other toxic pigments within a broader historical context; recommend safe handling and storage practices for emerald green bookbindings; and report on the Poison Book Project’s most recent findings. \nA virtual presentation by Dr. Rosie Grayburn\, Head of the Scientific Research and Analysis lab at Winterthur Museum\, Garden and Library and founding co-chair of the Bibliotoxicology Working Group
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-poison-book-project-arsenic-other-heavy-metals-in-19th-c-bookbinding/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T193000
DTSTAMP:20230831T211723Z
CREATED:20230831T211722Z
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SUMMARY:The Deserts of California\, a California Field Atlas
DESCRIPTION:With climate breakdown heating up and desertification looming over the horizon\, Obi Kaufmann leads curious adventurers on a voyage into the sage-and-ocher landscapes of the American West’s world-famous desert regions this fall in his revelatory and sumptuously illustrated new volume The Deserts of California: A California Field Atlas. As philosophical as it is geophysical\, this journey blends science and art in Kaufmann’s signature style to throw into relief ecological insights greater than either might yield alone. Through expressionistic mapmaking\, wildlife renderings\, and geographic conservation guides\, Kaufmann explores the marvels of and threats to these resilient yet sensitive ecosystems. \n“The Deserts of California presumes that hope\, like healing\, relies on time\,” writes Kaufmann. “If there is time\, there is hope. Although every desert habitat type is threatened\, very little of it is yet extinct. Despite the complexity of the threat\, everywhere there is precedent for resurgence.” \nOf a piece with his best-selling books The Forests of California (2020) and The Coasts of California (2022)\, The Deserts of California (October 2023) rounds out Kaufmann’s expansive California Lands Trilogy. Individually and collectively\, these volumes set out to transform entrenched colonialist attitudes toward the American West\, and transform our concept of nature from a resource for extraction to a shared and cherished inheritance. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Obi Kaufmann\, author\, illustrator\, and naturalist
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-deserts-of-california-a-california-field-atlas/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T193000
DTSTAMP:20230831T211526Z
CREATED:20230831T211525Z
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SUMMARY:We Are the Land: A History of Native California
DESCRIPTION:Before there was such a thing as “California\,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny\, the Gold Rush\, and settler colonial society drew maps\, displaced Indigenous People\, and reshaped the land\, but they did not make California. Rather\, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind\, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians\, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans\, Spanish missions\, Mexican secularization\, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood\, genocide\, efforts to reclaim land\, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history\, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings\, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by William J. Bauer Jr.\, enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes\, author\, and Professor of History at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas \n 
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/we-are-the-land-a-history-of-native-california/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231016T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231016T193000
DTSTAMP:20230831T211253Z
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SUMMARY:PICTURE • BOOK • TALK
DESCRIPTION:As a photographer in the fifty-seventh year of his serious effort\, David Wing will describe how his camera found its subjects\, what his working mind is like today\, and how his accumulated work has “aged” in his intellect and in his heart. \nAccompanied by a large number of slides\, Wing will talk in detail about how his pictures come to light\, and how his many recent books came to be. \nWing’s talk will try to show how his editing seems to work – he notes retrospective relationships among his photographs\, and as these become more apparent\, they seem to find independent coherence. As this happens\, sequences\, exhibitions\, and the monographs take shape. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by David Wing\, photographer and teacher
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/picture-book-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T193000
DTSTAMP:20230831T211052Z
CREATED:20230831T211050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T211052Z
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SUMMARY:Neon: A Light History
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible that (once again) everything we know is wrong? Well\, in regards to the history of neon\, this may well be the case. Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein have penned a brief\, but concise history of the neon sign beginning at the beginning\, and covering scandals\, murder\, fascists\, and forgotten inventors. A full-color\, lavishly illustrated electrical bodice ripper\, aficionados of neon will find this an indispensable “bible” to the history of their favorite collision of art and commerce. \nRevealing neon signs as active agents in sweeping cultural\, economic\, and political changes nationwide\, DeLyser and Greenstein introduce readers to a compelling cast of characters\, many of whom\, they show\, continue to keep neon vibrant today. Taking readers inside the signs themselves\, the authors show how each sign\, whether historic or contemporary\, is made by skilled hands—today just as they were over one hundred years ago. \nDrawing from over a decade of in-depth archival and ethnographic research as well as more than four decades of experience in the sign industry\, DeLyser and Greenstein use Los Angeles—not New York or Las Vegas—as focal point\, showing how neon signs have catalyzed urban change\, and how they continue to hold appeal for our changing communities—developing with the automobile and car-and-consumer culture in the twentieth century\, expanding from cities to towns\, and along highways to remote roadside outposts. From the earliest luminous tubing in the 1890s to the artistic creations of today\, from community-funded restorations of historic signs to ordinary-seeming business signs that have become community icons\, DeLyser and Greenstein show how\, just as neon signs lit our past\, they can now light our shared future. \nAn in-person presentation by Dydia DeLyser\, author and Associate Professor of Geography at California State University\, Fullerton\, and Paul Greenstein\, author and neon light professional
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/neon-a-light-history/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231002T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231002T193000
DTSTAMP:20230831T210903Z
CREATED:20230831T210902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T210903Z
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SUMMARY:We are All in it Together: Power of the Press
DESCRIPTION:The saying goes\, “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one” but what if the community’s words could be printed and freely shared…Thea Sizemore of Kavamore Press is doing just that. \nJoin us for an uplifting talk with Thea Sizemore about a social print project that is geared toward elevating the voices of the community. The project began early in the pandemic\, providing an immediate and meaningful social justice service for the general public though protest poster production and distribution. A neighbor gifted a defunct newspaper box which was then up-cycled for the project and “Fresh Prints” Box was born. What happened after that is the beauty of human nature…. connection at a distance\, community growth through the power of the press. \nUsing traditional equipment from the 1900s\, hand set type and ink on paper\, Sizemore has been able to build a new kinda “social media” that is tethered to the rich history of the printing press. Sizemore will show examples of posters\, discuss working methods and most importantly share how interactions with strangers brought light to a dark pandemic period and started a long term art practice. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Thea Sizemore\, letterpress printer\, artist\, and instructor
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/we-are-all-in-it-together-power-of-the-press/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230918T193000
DTSTAMP:20230831T210632Z
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SUMMARY:From Books to Bytes: Building the Next Generation of Bancroft Library Collections
DESCRIPTION:Historian\, writer\, and collector Hubert Howe Bancroft sold his expansive collection of research materials on the history of Western North America to the University of California in 1905\, thus establishing the eponymous library as a center of historical research and scholarship on Western Americana. This presentation explores over a hundred years of collecting at The Bancroft Library\, from the library’s Valencia Street origins in San Francisco to its present moment on the University of California\, Berkeley campus. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Kate Donovan\, Director of The Bancroft Library & Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at University of California\, Berkeley \n* Co-presented and co-hosted by the Northern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/from-books-to-bytes-building-the-next-generation-of-bancroft-library-collections/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230913T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230913T193000
DTSTAMP:20230831T210431Z
CREATED:20230831T210430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T210431Z
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SUMMARY:A Country Called California
DESCRIPTION:Collecting more than 200 stunning photographs in one volume\, A Country Called California: Photographs 1850s to 1960s traces the development of the Golden State from the nineteenth century on\, through to its emergence as the fifth-largest economy in the world—all as seen through the eyes of photographers whose names are synonymous with fine art photography: Carleton E. Watkins\, Dorothea Lange\, Eadward Muybridge\, Will Connell\, Edward Weston\, Max Yavno\, A.C. Vroman\, Mabel Watson\, Anne Brigman\, and many more. \nA Country Called California captures the light that has captivated every photographer’s eye\, in a land so distinct and diverse it could be its own country. \nAn in-person presentation by Stephen White\, author\, collector\, curator\, and historian of photography \n 
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/a-country-called-california/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T193000
DTSTAMP:20230831T210138Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T210138Z
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SUMMARY:Nut Tree: From a California Ranch to a Design\, Food\, and Hospitality Icon
DESCRIPTION:Diane Power Zimmerman will share highlights from her book Nut Tree: From a California Ranch to a Design\, Food\, and Hospitality Icon. As the oldest granddaughter of the founders of a famous northern California roadside destination\, Nut Tree\, Power Zimmerman is uniquely poised to tell the story of a twentieth century icon. \nThe real story begins in 1921\, when newlyweds\, Helen and Bunny (Edward) Power took over a lease on a 150-acre California ranch and disaster struck. A late frost and early heat wave wiped out most of the fruit crop\, and what was left\, could no longer be shipped to the cities in the East. In desperation the couple set up a roadside stand to sell fruit and recapture some profits. They soon realized that American’s love affair with the automobile had just begun. \nHelen and Bunny Power were in the right place and time to start a small farm-based restaurant that grew into a multi-million-dollar entertainment complex thanks to the advent of the automobile. While the history begins with the California Gold Rush\, the main story focuses on the entrepreneurial successes of her family. \nAfter the business closed\, Power Zimmerman began to collect the stories tinged with nostalgia and the vivid memories proffered by fans. Power Zimmerman draws from family records\, letters\, newspaper clippings\, photos\, and the extensive archives of the Vacaville Museum to create a visually stunning book full of tales and photos chronicling the twentieth century. Power Zimmerman reflects on the writing experience and tells how a simple history took on a life of its own. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Diane Power Zimmerman\, author and a fifth-generation member of the founding family of the Nut Tree
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/nut-tree-from-a-california-ranch-to-a-design-food-and-hospitality-icon/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230814T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230814T193000
DTSTAMP:20230728T210227Z
CREATED:20230728T210225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230728T210227Z
UID:10000733-1692034200-1692041400@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:Companions of Minds and Books: H.H. and Matilda Bancroft in Their Literary Industries
DESCRIPTION:Kim Bancroft will discuss the legacy of her great-great-grandparents\, H.H. Bancroft\, historian of the West and founder of The Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley\, and his second wife\, Matilda Bancroft\, a writer and historian in her own right. \nAfter marrying H.H. in 1859\, Emily wrote voluminous letters from San Francisco to her family in Buffalo in the 1860s. Seven years after Emily died in 1869\, H.H. married Matilda\, who composed volumes of diaries and letters from 1876-1910\, along with oral histories. \nKim Bancroft’s book “Writing Themselves into History: Emily and Matilda Bancroft in Journals and Letters” highlights piquant details from these women’s writing\, noting political and cultural changes during those years\, as well as race\, class\, and gender differences underlying Emily and Matilda’s social observations. These women also captured the private life of a man who would become a very public figure through his writing and library. \nIn particular\, Matilda relished her ability to participate in her husband’s book-making efforts. With him\, she traveled to collect documents and stories regarding those who had settled the West and its multitudes of commerce\, cultures\, and government. Matilda learned how to edit her husband’s writing. Her work also found its way into his books\, with both her own writings and the oral histories she took. \nIn her presentation\, Kim Bancroft will focus on this remarkable couple’s companionship of shared ideals and ambitions in telling the story of the West\, though from very different perspectives\, one a public man\, the other a private woman. How these two writers of different natures contributed to literary life in California and beyond—with plentiful challenges and controversies—makes for an engaging story. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Kim Bancroft\, author and editor
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/companions-of-minds-and-books-h-h-and-matilda-bancroft-in-their-literary-industries/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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