Gray Brechin is an interesting guy - I hosted him for a talk he gave at Microsoft back in 2000 about the end of the gold rush (lots of parallels with the dot-com boom). Were I free, I'd definitely go.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Amandeep Jawa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deep@deeptrouble.com">deep@deeptrouble.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Our very own Adrian Cotter has become co-curator of the excellent San Francisco Natural History Series. This Thursday's lecture has nothing to do with Natural History near as I can tell :-) but sounds fascinating nonetheless. I'll have to figure out how to juggle my other plans to do both now.....</div>
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">---<br><br>San Francisco and the New Deal<br>Guest speaker Gray Brechin<br>7:30PM, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009<br><br>Join historian Gray Brechin for an evening discussion about San Francisco during the Great Depression and how the programs of the New Deal helped the City reclaim some dignity. Brechin will share his insights and make some comparisons to what the City is experiencing today.<br>
<br>FREE; donations encouraged.<br>Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way<br>Info: 415.554.9600 or <a href="http://www.randallmuseum.org/" target="_blank">www.randallmuseum.org</a><br><br>More information about our speaker:<br><a href="http://graybrechin.net/" target="_blank">http://graybrechin.net/</a><br>
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