This Thu 3/19: The Most Extreme Storms Yet

[Adrian]

Hope to see some of you this thursday.

One correction from my last announcement: our April talk will be at Green Apple Books in the Inner Sunset on 1231 9th Ave (not 9th st). If you know where LeVideo is you know where Green Apple is now (LeVideo is still upstairs).  

Our March talk -- Joel's talk below on floods and storms -- is our last at the Randall for a while. 

Cheers,

Adrian

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MARCH TALK

The Most Extreme Storms Yet
Guest Speaker: Joel Pomerantz
7:30pm, Thursday, Mar 19th, 2015
FREE at the Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 

Joel will share his research on the weather disaster that determined so much of what’s around you today. In early 1862 the sky dumped upwards of ten feet of rain in the mountains (about four feet in San Francisco). In the middle of that, there was a hard freeze for a week down to sea level. Thousands died. No previous research has done so much to connect the dots. Come learn about the widespread disaster that spanned more than four states (before all were states), changed the course of rivers, destroyed the California economy and brought in invasive grasses, among other stunning details.

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UPCOMING TALKS

April 27th – Keith Hansen: The Art and Exploration of Creating a Bird Book (Green Apple Books on 9th Ave)