Events Calendar

EVENTS CALENDAR

Saturday, May 18, 2013 & Sunday, May 19, 2013, 4:00pm

Calvary Presbyterian Church

CHS RECOMMENDS: The San Francisco Bach Choirbach sf songs

Contact The San Francisco Bach Choir for tickets and more information.

Take a musical tour of San Francisco history! Experience the thrill of the Gold Rush, the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire, the resurgence of the city during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition and the exuberance of the 1920s. Families, history buffs and all who cherish San Francisco will find something to love in SFBC's valentine to our fair city.

Songs of San Francisco, from Gold Rush to Golden Gate (1840s-1930s)
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
History Mysteries

Billboards, Boats and Barters on the Bay

Exploring San Francisco's Historic Businesses

California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco

Please RSVP at historymysteries.eventbrite.com

Join historians, curators, and history geeks in exploring and documenting rarely seen photographs from the California Historical Society, the San Francisco Public Library, the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority Archives, and the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park.

History Mysteries
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Pacific Eldorado: A History of Greater California

Book Event with author Thomas J. Osborne

Free Event at the California Historical Society 678 Mission Street, San Francisco

Please RSVP at pacificeldorado.eventbrite.com

Join us for an evening with the author of the first California history text to see the state in relation to its place at the edge of the American continent. Hear California's history described in a whole new western light.
Pacific Eldorado: A History of Greater California
Thursday, June 13, 2013, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
The Bay at War: Marinship and the Shipbuilding Boom of WWII

An Evening with Historian Charles Wollenberg

Free Event at the California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco

Please RSVP at thebayatwar.eventbrite.com

Bay Area historian Charles Wollenberg, author of Marinship at War: Shipbuilding and Social Change in Wartime Sausalito will join us to talk about the social, economic and demographic implications that wartime shipbuilding brought to San Francisco Bay, and the Bay Area in general, with a specific focus on Sausalito's shipbuilding past.

>The Bay at War: Marinship and the Shipbuilding Boom of WWII
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