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SUMMARY:Digger Do: Excavating a Social Movement Through Its Print Ephemera
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California.\n\nHow do we uncover the arc of a social movement through its broadsides\, street sheets\, mimeographed leaflets\, and print ephemera? In this illustrated talk\, Eric Noble will explore the Digger movement of 1960s San Francisco — a radical network of free stores\, free food\, and free theater — through the lens of its printed traces.\n\nDrawing from the Digger Archives and firsthand accounts\, the presentation will examine how the Diggers used print not just to document\, but to provoke\, invite\, and enact. From the surrealist tones of the early Digger Papers to the communal publishing of Kaliflower\, we’ll consider how typography\, anonymity\, and distribution shaped the movement’s ethos.\n\nThis talk will also reflect on the lineage of radical print culture\, connecting the Diggers to earlier traditions of pamphleteering\, underground publishing\, and the poetic politics of the commons — offering a bibliographic journey through a movement that challenged the very notion of authorship\, ownership\, and permanence. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Eric Noble\, writer\, historian\, and keeper of the Digger Archive
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/digger-do-excavating-a-social-movement-through-its-print-ephemera/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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SUMMARY:The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy: John R. Freeman and San Francisco’s Yosemite Water Supply
DESCRIPTION:The damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park is widely seen as a watershed event in American environmental history. Passionately opposed by naturalist John Muir and his ardent supporters\, the massive undertaking succeeded largely through the efforts of John R. Freeman\, one of the most important\, influential\, and politically adroit engineers of the Progressive Era. In The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy\, Donald C. Jackson focuses on Freeman to offer a nuanced account of how the City of San Francisco won the right to transform the bucolic valley into a municipal water supply reservoir that\, a century later\, continues to serve millions of Bay Area residents. \nCentral to Freeman’s work for San Francisco from 1910 to 1913 was his design of a high-pressure aqueduct projected to deliver 400 million gallons of water per day to the Bay Area and generate more than 150\,000 horsepower of electricity. Beyond crafting an extensively illustrated 421-page report detailing his design\, he also worked—and succeeded—as a political advocate lobbying for congressional approval of the project. Jackson draws on a wealth of correspondence\, reports\, and other documents\, including congressional records\, to highlight Freeman’s contention that the Hetch Hetchy project would not just provide copious quantities of water and power\, but would also enhance the Sierra Nevada environment and increase tourist access to the northern reaches of the national park. His self-avowed goal was not to tear down or destroy Hetch Hetchy but to utilize the valley for the greater public good and to create a system that would serve the city for decades if not centuries to come. \nTo register for the online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-man-who-dammed-hetch-hetchy-john-r-freeman-and-san-franciscos-yosemite-water-supply/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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SUMMARY:Thomas Clarkson’s Latin Essay: The Origins and Legacy of an Antislavery Text
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nProfessor Emerita Dee E. Andrews and Assistant Professor Christopher S. Parmenter will discuss two elements of their new book manuscript\, Thomas Clarkson’s Latin Essay: The Making of an Abolitionist Author in the Age of Revolution. Based on the first translation of Clarkson’s “An Liceat Invitos in Servitutem Dare” since 1786\, their work explores in depth the composition\, publication\, distribution\, response\, and reprinting\, not least of all in Revolutionary France\, of a central text in the first abolition movement. Our speakers will introduce the subject of the Latin Essay itself\, the significance its translation\, and how Clarkson reverses the formerly conventional argument regarding slavery in the classical tradition. There will be examples of unusual reader response to “An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species” (1786) — the Latin Essay (greatly expanded) in print — and the essay’s endurance as an abolitionist symbol. \nTo register for the online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/thomas-clarksons-latin-essay-the-origins-and-legacy-of-an-antislavery-text/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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SUMMARY:The Binfords & Mort Story: Publishing Books About Oregon\, 1930-1983
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nIn 1891 while still teens in Portland\, Oregon\, Maurice and Peter Binford started an influential career as publishers. They went on to found the Binfords & Mort publishing company focused on Pacific Northwest literature. This talk will explore how this mostly forgotten company\, once the largest publisher west of the Mississippi\, cast a large shadow over regional literature\, literary societies\, recreation\, and civic engagement in the Pacific Northwest. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Jeremy Skinner\, author\, archivist\, and Library Director for Curry Public Library in Gold Beach\, Oregon \n**The Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West** \nTo register to attend the online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-binfords-mort-story-publishing-books-about-oregon-1930-1983/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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SUMMARY:City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nCalifornia’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote forest and its urban core as two poles of a regional “city.” This city consisted of a far-reaching network of spaces\, produced as company owners and workers arrayed men and machines to extract resources and create human commodities from the region’s rich natural environment. \nCombining labor\, urban\, industrial\, and social history\, City of Wood employs a variety of sources—including contemporary newspaper articles\, novels\, and photographs—to explore the architectural landscape of lumber\, from backwoods logging camps and company towns in the woods to busy lumber docks and the homes of workers and owners in San Francisco. By imagining the redwood lumber industry as a single community spread across multiple sites—a “City of Wood”—Buckley demonstrates how capitalist resource extraction links different places along the production value chain. The result is a paradigm shift in architectural history that focuses not just on the evolution of individual building design across time\, but also on economic connections that link the center and periphery across space. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by James Michael Buckley\, author\, urban planner\, and historian. \nTo register to attend online\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/city-of-wood-san-francisco-and-the-architecture-of-the-redwood-lumber-industry/
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