Celebrate the romance of the winter garden this Valentine’s Day weekend by exploring Filoli gardens. Taking a guided camellia walk, watch the chef instructor do wonderful things with chocolate, attend an inspiring floral demonstration, or discover the art and history of embroidery then try your hand at it. Share a…
10am at Veterans Retirement Home 4150 Clement Street at 42nd Avenue. In the afternoon at 2pm at St. Anne’s Little Sisters of the Poor 300 Lake Street at 3rd Avenue
The Shamrock Isle: Images of Ireland at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 California Historical Society. A presentation by Elizabeth Creely will explore the dichotomy between the changing landscape of Ireland in 1915 and the “Shamrock Isle,” the Irish exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco that…
Join historian and author Abigail Markwyn for a talk on San Franciscans participation in the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE). Markwyn discusses the ways in which local groups, including Irish, German, African American, Chinese Americans and Catholics each participated in shaping the spectacle of the Fair. Abigail Markwyn is associate…
Crossroads and local educator and historian, Steven Fidel Herraiz, present an historic multi-media retrospective of the notorious working class Irish neighborhood near San Francisco's shipyards (c. 1860-1918). more
Irish Hill: The Potrero’s Lost Neighborhood. A Presentation About Local History Crossroads welcomes local educator and historian, Steven Fidel Herraiz, who will present a terrifically entertaining and historic multi-media retrospective of the notorious working class Irish neighborhood near San Francisco’s shipyards (c. 1860-1918). Steven has researched the history of this neighborhood…
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