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Marin History Museum Lecture Series Winter/Spring 2018
1312 Mission Ave, San Rafael • 7:00 p.m.
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March 22 | The Northwestern Pacific Railroad, Lifeline of the Redwood Empire Boom and Bust 1951-2001
by Angelo Figone
From the boom years of Northern California’s lumber traffic to the demise of the Redwood Empire’s Lifeline, this is the 50-year story of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, 1951-2001. The presentation documents the challenges and rewards of the Southern Pacific Railroad’s unique subsidiary including excerpts from former NWPRR employees who were there.
April 26 | The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame,
A Life of Louise Arner Boyd by Joanna Kafarowski
May 24 | The Swiss-Italian Connection: From Ticino to Marin and Back by Marilyn Geary
Local author Marilyn Geary will take us on a virtual visit to the ancestral home of Marin’s Swiss-Italian ranch families, the Vallemaggia, in Ticino.
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$10 admission. Free entry for Elks with ID card. San Rafael Elks Lodge at Mission Ave at C Street in San Rafael. Look for hidden driveway. Parking is in the rear of mansion. Follow one-way signs.
For more information, contact info@marinhistory.org • 415-382-1182.
by Angelo Figone
From the boom years of Northern California’s lumber traffic to the demise of the Redwood Empire’s Lifeline, this is the 50-year story of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, 1951-2001. The presentation documents the challenges and rewards of the Southern Pacific Railroad’s unique subsidiary including excerpts from former NWPRR employees who were there.
April 26 | The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame,
A Life of Louise Arner Boyd by Joanna Kafarowski
May 24 | The Swiss-Italian Connection: From Ticino to Marin and Back by Marilyn Geary
Local author Marilyn Geary will take us on a virtual visit to the ancestral home of Marin’s Swiss-Italian ranch families, the Vallemaggia, in Ticino.
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$10 admission. Free entry for Elks with ID card. San Rafael Elks Lodge at Mission Ave at C Street in San Rafael. Look for hidden driveway. Parking is in the rear of mansion. Follow one-way signs.
For more information, contact info@marinhistory.org • 415-382-1182.
San Rafael library hits 130 years of service, looks to expand
Story in the Marin IJ, June 3rd
Story in the Marin IJ, June 3rd
Most of us assume that our library started out in its present Classical Revival Carnegie-endowed building. But library roots go back to 1887, when the Women’s Christian Temperance Union started a coffee and reading room with a free library in downtown San Rafael. By 1890, this library had been turned over to the City of San Rafael. In 1904, the Good Government Club and a local judge who was a personal friend of Andrew Carnegie asked Carnegie for funds for a proper library building. A grant of $25,000 brought the structure into existence in 1909. It was designed by the same architects who designed San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel.
The Carnegie endowment gave San Rafael a gracious, lovely, building of civic importance that our citizens have viewed with great pride for 108 years!
The Carnegie endowment gave San Rafael a gracious, lovely, building of civic importance that our citizens have viewed with great pride for 108 years!
Civic Center Tours
One-hour docent-led tours of the Civic Center are offered every Wednesday at 10:30 am
