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SUMMARY:The White Whale: Moby-Dick Illustrated
DESCRIPTION:At the time of Herman Melville’s death\, in 1891\, his novels had fallen into obscurity. Moby-Dick\, his masterwork published in 1851\, was out of print and unread. But in the 1920s\, critical reassessments led to a “Melville revival.” \nThis lecture surveys some of the famous and less well-known illustrated editions\, artists’ books\, and other visual interpretations\, examining their role in establishing the unassailable reputation of Moby-Dick as the great American novel. \nAn in-person presentation by Declan Kiely\, author\, lecturer\, and Executive Director of the Grolier Club \n** The Windle-Loker Lecture Series on the History of the Illustrated Book ** \n** Co-presented and co-hosted by the American Trust for the British Library **
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-white-whale-moby-dick-illustrated/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240923T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240923T193000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
CREATED:20240831T110527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240831T110529Z
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SUMMARY:Women’s Book History and the Knowledge Revolution
DESCRIPTION:The fields of book history and bibliography are having a cultural reckoning. The Women in Book History Bibliography (womensbookhistory.org) has acted as an impetus for championing the “lost” histories of women in the book trades and as a tool for arguing for further recovery work. Still in progress\, the bibliography currently consists of over 2000 citations of scholarly work that has otherwise been made inaccessible due to problematic indexing practices. This lecture will combine an overview of historical figures and a discussion of the ways that bibliographical practices can make – or erase – history. \nAn in-person presentation by Cait Coker\, associate professor and curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. \n** Co-presented and co-hosted by the Northern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America **
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/womens-book-history-and-the-knowledge-revolution/
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:20240916T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240916T193000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
CREATED:20240831T110319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240831T110321Z
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SUMMARY:A ‘Deep City’ Approach to Climate Change: The Case of Deep Oakland
DESCRIPTION:Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City\, presents a seldom-attempted blend of human and geologic history\, explaining the stories told by the physical landscape and detailing how the city has interacted with it. Wealth generated in the region from its geological resources―water\, stone\, soil and minerals―has influenced societies from the pre-contact Ohlones to the Americans of yesterday and today. So have the hazards of earthquake\, fire\, drought and changing sea level. Today\, climate change has shown us that nature and civilization are not separate realms; the idea they are is an illusion that grows ever more costly. \nThe topic of a city’s rocks and landmarks is a natural entree to a more global\, “deep time” centered standpoint that can enrich readers in new ways as they guide their communities toward more sustainable policies. The pleasures of learning to see one’s familiar surroundings in new depth\, as geoheritage\, translate to deeper engagement in determining a city’s collective future. Recent advances in geology\, from plate tectonics to digital visualizations\, have given geologists unprecedented ways to tell the histories of the cities they live in; Deep Oakland proves the power of a geologist’s approach to equip the public for policy engagement based on nature’s long-term trends and demands. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Andrew Alden\, geologist and geoscience writer
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/a-deep-city-approach-to-climate-change-the-case-of-deep-oakland/
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:20240826T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240826T193000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240801T210319Z
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SUMMARY:American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail
DESCRIPTION:In popular mythology\, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale\, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6\,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell\, often on Indigenous land. As historian Sarah Keyes illuminates\, their graves ultimately became the seeds of U.S. expansion. \nBy the 1850s\, cholera epidemics\, ordinary diseases\, and violence had remade the Trail into an American burial ground that imbued migrant deaths with symbolic power. In subsequent decades\, U.S. officials and citizens leveraged Trail graves to claim Native ground. Meanwhile\, Indigenous peoples pointed to their own sacred burial grounds to dispute these same claims and maintain their land. These efforts built on anti-removal campaigns of the 1820s and 30s\, which had established the link between death and territorial claims on which the significance of the Overland Trail came to rest. \nIn placing death at the center of the history of the Overland Trail\, American Burial Ground offers a sweeping and long overdue reinterpretation of this historic touchstone. In this telling\, westward migration was a harrowing journey weighed down by the demands of caring for the sick and dying. From a tale of triumph comes one of struggle\, defined as much by Indigenous peoples’ actions as it was by white expansion. And\, finally\, from a migration to the Pacific emerges instead a trail of graves. Graves that ultimately undergirded Native dispossession. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Sarah Keyes\, author\, historian\, and assistant professor of history\, University of Nevada\, Reno
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/american-burial-ground-a-new-history-of-the-overland-trail/
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:20240212T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
CREATED:20240106T024553Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20260530T153038
CREATED:20240106T024332Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20260530T153038
CREATED:20240106T024135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T024136Z
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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:20231204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231204T193000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
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:20231106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231106T193000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
CREATED:20231102T201247Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20230814T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230814T193000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
CREATED:20230728T210225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230728T210227Z
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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
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230726T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230726T190000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
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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:20230710T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230710T193000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
CREATED:20230630T204042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230630T204043Z
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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:20230619T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230619T193000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
CREATED:20230507T195307Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20230612T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230612T193000
DTSTAMP:20260530T153038
CREATED:20230507T194431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230507T194432Z
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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:20260530T153038
CREATED:20230408T224914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230408T224915Z
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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:20260530T153038
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:20230508T180000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T173000
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SUMMARY:Before Baedeker: Travel Guidebooks to 1840
DESCRIPTION:The late 19th century has been labelled the “Baedeker Era” after the famous series of compact\, bright-red travel guides published simultaneously in German\, English\, and French. The Baedeker guides’ trademark characteristics – systematic\, impersonal\, regularly updated\, in a portable format packed with practical information and complementary maps – have served as a template for all subsequent guidebooks up to the present day. \nBut how did this specialty format develop? In a talk based on original research drawn from his personal collection spanning 1600 to 1840\, Bill Newlin will trace the evolution of early travel guides\, beginning with itineraries of Italy and France written by and for tutors escorting young noblemen on the Grand Tour.
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/before-baedeker-travel-guidebooks-to-1840/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
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