San
Gabriel Valley residents far and wide will learn many fascinating facts about
their community when the San Marino Historical Society presents ELIZABETH
POMEROY, author of San Marino: A Centennial
History on Monday, November 25th at Crowell Public Library. After months of research, many
thickets of information were carefully pared into the award-winning centennial
tome, but who and what was left
behind in the final shaping? What voices
went unheard and characters unmet? Come
find out as we look for back-stories and little gems of San Marino history.
Ms. Pomeroy spoke at
the library last September and outlined her story of researching and writing San Marino: A Centennial History which, since then,
has sold thousands of copies and received state and national awards. Members of the Centennial Book Committee
generated thousands of pages of research which Elizabeth was able to distill
down into a wonderfully readable history of San Marino. What we do not know is what she left
out. Please join us to hear her tell the
tales.
San
Marino: A Centennial History traces
the history of the first century of the city through words and images. The
reader will follow the transition from the area's rich agricultural ranches to
the establishment of San Marino as a city. Copies of the book will also
be available for purchase just in time for holiday gift-giving.
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Elizabeth Pomeroy, a California native, graduated from
Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in English from UCLA. She served on
the staff of the Huntington Library for ten years, and has taught
English at Pasadena City College for a decade, and at UCLA, UC Irvine, and
California State University Los Angeles.
She has contributed
a weekly column on historic places entitled “Lost and Found,” for the Pasadena
Star-News and San
abriel Valley Tribune. In the year 2000 she
established Many Moons Press, which publishes books on Southern California
history and nature.
For information on the
San Marino Historical Society call (626) 304-9375 or
email smhistorical@earthlink.net.
