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Valentine’s Walks at Filoli, Woodside

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…

1915 Pan Pacific Expo Images of Ireland Presentation

California Historical Society 678 Mission Street @ 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA

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…

free - donations

SF Main Library – 1915 Expo Event

San Francisco Main Library Civic Center, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco

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…

Potrero Hill’s Irish History

St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church 1490 19th Street @ Connecticut Street, San Francisco, CA

  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

$15 – $20

History of Irish Hill: The Potrero’s Lost Neighborhood

St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church 1490 19th Stree, San Francisco, CA, United States

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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