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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
CREATED:20231102T214418Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
CREATED:20231102T214110Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
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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
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T211923Z
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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
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T211723Z
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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
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T211526Z
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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
CREATED:20230831T211252Z
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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
UID:10000779-1697047200-1697052600@pubpronetwork.org
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
UID:10000778-1696269600-1696275000@pubpronetwork.org
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
CREATED:20230831T210630Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
UID:10000776-1694628000-1694633400@pubpronetwork.org
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
CREATED: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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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230731T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230731T183000
DTSTAMP:20230630T204738Z
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SUMMARY:A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and his Brindabella Press
DESCRIPTION:Australia has a long history of fine printing\, which is mostly unknown outside of the country itself. ‘Printing is like religion’\, acclaimed Australian book artist Alec Bolton once said\, ‘We live in sin\, but with the hope of perfection before us.’ And while his life circled around books and writing generally\, it was his private press\, the Brindabella Press\, that won him acclaim as an Australian book arts practitioner from the 1970s until his death in 1996. Starting with one-page poems and pamphlets\, he quickly moved on to hardback and then hand-bound titles\, and sought always to print books that were both beautiful and meaningful. His editions of significant Australian writers such as Barbara Hanrahan\, Les A. Murray and Kenneth Slessor are now scarce and sought after. However\, despite these author’s importance at the heart of everything was the distinguished poet Rosemary Dobson\, his wife\, who first suggested he take up letterpress printing and who wrote three of the Press’s most beloved books. \nMichael Richards’s book contains both a comprehensive bibliography of the Brindabella Press\, as well as an account of a passionate Australian mainstream publisher and the hand-printed books he made for himself and his friends in the last decades of the twentieth century\, keeping alive letterpress skills that were being swept away by constant changes in the printing industry. \nA virtual presentation by Michael Richards\, author\, librarian\, historian\, bookseller\, and book collector
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/a-maker-of-books-alec-bolton-and-his-brindabella-press/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230726T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230726T190000
DTSTAMP:20230630T204523Z
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SUMMARY:Reception for the California Rare Book School
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reception to welcome the students\, instructors\, and staff from California Rare Book School at this special Book Club member event. \nCalifornia Rare Book School (CalRBS) is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for professionals working in all aspects of the rare book community\, and for students interested in entering the field. \nBook Club colleagues and friends from CalRBS will be in the Bay Area for a series of week-long courses during the month of July. \nLight refreshments and beverages will be served. \nWelcome by Kevin Kosik\, Book Club executive director and remarks by Robert D. Montoya\, California Rare Book School director. \n** Space is limited and an RSVP is required. **
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/reception-for-the-california-rare-book-school/
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:20230712T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230712T193000
DTSTAMP:20230630T204302Z
CREATED:20230630T204301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230630T204302Z
UID:10000695-1689183000-1689190200@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California
DESCRIPTION:Learn how a work of historical fiction came to define how we understand southern California’s past. \nDydia DeLyser is Associate Professor of Geography at California State University\, Fullerton. A native Californian\, she began researching the “Ramona Myth” as an undergraduate at UCLA. Her book\, “Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California” (University of Minnesota Press\, 2005) is the only scholarly\, book-length treatment of this important element of southern California’s past. Her research\, based on obscure archival sources as well as a growing personal collection of Ramona-related tourist souvenirs\, revealed that it was not the promoters and boosters who first fabulated Ramona-related attractions\, but the tourists themselves who demanded that Ramona locales become visitable tourist sites\, thus reshaping not only the region’s landscape\, but also how generations have thought about its past. \nAn in-person presentation by Dydia DeLyser\, author and Associate Professor of Geography at California State University\, Fullerton\,
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/ramona-memories-tourism-and-the-shaping-of-southern-california/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230710T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230710T193000
DTSTAMP:20230630T204043Z
CREATED:20230630T204042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230630T204043Z
UID:10000694-1689008400-1689017400@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:Fifty Years in the Making: A Reprise by John A. Lehner of the 1970 Decorative Designers Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:In 1970 John A. Lehner attended The Decorative Designers Exhibition and was captivated by the originality and variety of The Decorative Designers’ work. The Decorative Designers operated as a firm\, as opposed to individual artists\, to present publishers with designs hand-painted onto the cloth that would be used in production\, thus giving a clearer representation of the finished product. Lehner spent the next fifty years on a quest to collect all sixty-one books that were on exhibit. On display at the Book Club are all sixty-one of the books that were featured in the 1970 Decorative Designers Exhibition plus an additional thirteen books from The Decorative Designers. \nThe Exhibition will be on view July 10\, 2023 through October 23\, 2023. \nExhibition opening and remarks by John A. Lehner\, book collector and retired aerospace engineer
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/fifty-years-in-the-making-a-reprise-by-john-a-lehner-of-the-1970-decorative-designers-exhibition/
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:20230626T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230626T183000
DTSTAMP:20230507T195553Z
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UID:10000637-1687798800-1687804200@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:Teaching the History of the Book: A Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press) is the first collection dedicated to book history pedagogy. Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd and featuring contributions from a diverse range of teachers\, scholars\, and practitioners in literature\, language studies\, history\, book arts\, library science\, and archives\, the collection presents a variety of methods for teaching book history both as its own subject and as an approach to other subjects. Each of the 39 chapters describes lessons\, courses\, and programs centered on the latest and best ways of teaching undergraduate and graduate students both about and with book history. \nBeginning with chapters that apply particular pedagogical and critical theories to the book history classroom\, the book then covers effective ways to organize courses devoted to book history\, classroom activities that draw upon book history in other courses\, and an overview of selected print and digital tools for book history classes. Contributors draw on their own experiences in the classroom to bring to life some of the rich possibilities for teaching book history in the twenty-first century. \nA virtual presentation by the editors and selected contributors to Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2023)
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/teaching-the-history-of-the-book-a-roundtable/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230619T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230619T193000
DTSTAMP:20230507T195308Z
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SUMMARY:From Bookcase to Bender Room\, and Beyond: Approaching the Centennial of Rare Book Collecting at Stanford
DESCRIPTION:In September of 1926\, Albert M. Bender turned his philanthropic focus on Stanford University Library. As one of the founders of the Book Club of California\, Bender needs no introduction to this audience who will also be familiar with his efforts to establish an appreciation for the book arts at Mills College\, San Francisco Public Library\, and other Bay Area institutions. His offer to assemble\, with the co-operation of friends\, “a collection of notable examples of fine printing to be placed on exhibition in the Stanford Library”\, was immediately embraced by faculty\, students\, and library staff. This gift was the catalyst for the creation in rapid succession of a Typographical Collection\, a Rare Book Room\, a staff position for a Keeper of Rare Books\, and\, by the end of the 1930s\, a Division of Special Collections to manage the library’s growing holdings of rare and distinctive materials. \nOver the decades\, the Stanford collections were reorganized several times and much of the provenance information about this transformative period was lost from the library catalog\, with the foundational gift eventually being dispersed. This presentation explores some notable pre-Bender acquisitions\, once held on a bookcase in the library director’s office\, before introducing the foundational gift of “Finely Printed Books” that started\, and in many ways still shapes\, the collecting program at Stanford. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Benjamin Albritton\, Rare Books Curator in the Department of Special Collections at Stanford Libraries
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/from-bookcase-to-bender-room-and-beyond-approaching-the-centennial-of-rare-book-collecting-at-stanford/
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:20230614T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230614T193000
DTSTAMP:20230507T195035Z
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SUMMARY:LA Painter: The City I Know / The City I See
DESCRIPTION:L.A. Painter: The City I Know / The City I See is a full-color exploration of Karla Klarin’s abstract and modern landscapes of Los Angeles\, where she was born\, raised\, and became one of the city’s most influential female painters. This first full monograph of her work is accompanied by ten essays that define her hometown—a city of moving parts and people that exist within a geometry of impressive expanse and beauty. \nAn in-person presentation by Karla Klarin\, artist and author
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/la-painter-the-city-i-know-the-city-i-see/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230612T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230612T193000
DTSTAMP:20230507T194432Z
CREATED:20230507T194431Z
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SUMMARY:Frank Ingerson and George Dennison: A Bay Area Love Story in Arts & Crafts (1910-1966)
DESCRIPTION:The Splendid Disarray of Beauty (2023) tells two intertwined stories\, one of love\, the other of art. \nIn 1910\, the San Franciscans Frank Ingerson and George Dennison became permanently paired in life and love. Known among their friends and in their community as the Boys\, they remained in a de facto common law marriage for 55 years. \nIn the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains they established the first stand-alone summers-only art school in California. The school was devoted to the lifestyle and aesthetic of the American Arts & Crafts movement\, which aimed to imbue beauty into every element of day-to-day living\, taking nature as a source of inspiration in doing so. \nThe school lasted only four years but had a significant impact on the California art scene—inspiring the creation of three other summer-only art schools in Northern California and its distinguished alumni went on to found the California Society of Etchers and the ArtCenter College of Design in LA (now in Pasadena). \nIn 1915 both men held positions at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition: George was on its central committee as the chief operations officer for the Palace of Horticulture and designed the landscaping for the fair. Frank was in charge of the principal decorative arts exhibitions. \nThe men went on to form life-long friendships with famous artists and Hollywood stars\, including Olivia de Havilland\, Joan Fontaine\, Yehudi Menuhin\, Loie Fuller\, and Ruth St. Denis. Additionally\, during this time the pair cultivated a glamorous life that glittered across two continents. \nIn this talk Richard D. Mohr introduces us to two of the most interesting and admirable men you have never met\, until now. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Richard D. Mohr\, author and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/frank-ingerson-and-george-dennison-a-bay-area-love-story-in-arts-crafts-1910-1966/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230522T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230522T193000
DTSTAMP:20230408T224915Z
CREATED:20230408T224914Z
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SUMMARY:California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric — and What It Means for America’s Power Grid
DESCRIPTION:Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries\, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning\, Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer finalist Katherine Blunt examines how that legacy fell apart—unraveling a long history of deadly failures in which Pacific Gas and Electric endangered millions of Northern Californians\, through criminal neglect of its infrastructure. As PG&E prioritized profits and politics\, power lines went unchecked—until a rusted hook purchased for 56 cents in 1921 split in two\, sparking the deadliest wildfire in California history. \nBeginning with PG&E’s public reckoning after the Paradise fire\, Blunt chronicles the evolution of PG&E’s shareholder base\, from innovators who built some of California’s first long-distance power lines to aggressive investors keen on reaping dividends. Following key players through pivotal decisions and legal battles\, California Burning reveals the forces that shaped the plight of PG&E: deregulation and market-gaming led by Enron Corp.\, an unyielding push for renewable energy\, and a swift increase in wildfire risk throughout the West\, while regulators and lawmakers pushed their own agendas. \nCalifornia Burning is a deeply reported\, character-driven narrative\, the story of a disaster expanding into a much bigger exploration of accountability. It’s an American tragedy that serves as a cautionary tale for utilities across the nation—especially as climate change makes aging infrastructure more vulnerable\, with potentially fatal consequences. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Katherine Blunt\, journalist and author
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/california-burning-the-fall-of-pacific-gas-and-electric-and-what-it-means-for-americas-power-grid/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T193000
DTSTAMP:20230408T224609Z
CREATED:20230408T224609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230408T224609Z
UID:10000578-1684170000-1684179000@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:2023 Oscar Lewis Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992)\, author\, historian\, and club secretary. Recipients to be announced. \nThis is an in-person and virtual event.
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/2023-oscar-lewis-awards/
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:20230510T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T193000
DTSTAMP:20230408T224358Z
CREATED:20230408T224357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230408T224358Z
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SUMMARY:Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America’s Cities
DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles has developed one of the most successful historic preservation programs in the nation\, culminating with the completion of the nation’s most ambitious citywide survey of historic resources. Across the city\, historic preservation is now transforming Los Angeles\, while also pointing the way for other cities to use preservation to revitalize their neighborhoods and build community. Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America’s Cities\, written by Ken Bernstein\, who oversees Los Angeles’s Office of Historic Resources\, tells this under-appreciated L.A. story: how historic preservation has revived neighborhoods\, created a Downtown renaissance\, and guided the future of the city. With more than 300 full-color images\, Preserving Los Angeles is an authoritative chronicle of urban transformation\, a guide for citizens and urban practitioners alike who hope to preserve the unique culture of their own cities. \nAn in-person presentation by Ken Bernstein\, author and Principal City Planner and Manager\, Office of Historic Resources\, Los Angeles\, California
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/preserving-los-angeles-how-historic-places-can-transform-americas-cities/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230508T193000
DTSTAMP:20230408T223905Z
CREATED:20230408T223904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230408T223905Z
UID:10000576-1683568800-1683574200@pubpronetwork.org
SUMMARY:Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer\, Wine\, Spirits and Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:In 1848 when Samuel Brannan shouted “Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!” the precious metal he was waving around was stored in a quinine bottle. Malaria\, scurvy\, and plague all impacted the young city of San Francisco- and many of the recommended treatments for each (cinchona bark\, citrus\, gin) came in beverage form. The City’s most fashionable bar\, located on the site of the Transamerica Building\, served a drink made with Peruvian brandy\, perhaps laced with a bit of cocaine\, which was described by Rudyard Kipling as “compounded of the shavings of cherub’s wings\, the glory of a tropical dawn\, the red clouds of sunset and the fragments of lost epics by dead masters.” \nIn this talk by author Camper English\, we’ll start locally and think globally about diseases and conditions treated by alcohol-based medicine. Alcohol and Medicine have an inextricably intertwined history\, with innovations in each altering the path of the other. The story stretches back to ancient times\, when beer and wine were used to provide nutrition and hydration\, and were employed as solvents for healing botanicals. Over time\, alchemists distilled elixirs designed to cure all diseases\, monastic apothecaries developed mystical botanical liqueurs\, traveling physicians concocted dubious intoxicating nostrums\, and the drinks we’re familiar with today began to take form. \nIn turn\, scientists studied fermentation and formed the germ theory of disease\, and developed an understanding of elemental gases and anesthetics. Modern cocktails like the Old-Fashioned\, Gimlet\, and Gin and Tonic were born as delicious remedies for diseases and discomforts. In Doctors and Distillers\, cocktails and spirits expert Camper English reveals how and why the contents of our medicine and liquor cabinets were\, until surprisingly recently\, one and the same. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Camper English\, cocktails and spirits writer and speaker
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/doctors-and-distillers-the-remarkable-medicinal-history-of-beer-wine-spirits-and-cocktails/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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