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Reading
Berkeley Bohemia

When

Wednesday May 7 (5:30–7pm)

Where
University Press Books (2430 Bancroft Way, 510.548.0585)
Price
FREE
Details
http://www.universitypressbooks.com/
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Local historians Ed Herny and Shelley Rideout visit University Press Books with some of the legends and relics of fin-de-siècle Berkeley. Decades before patchouli-scented radicalism swept over the East Bay in the '60s, free-spirited intellectuals, philosophers, and environmentalists settled the city's hilly enclaves. Berkeley Bohemia profiles well-known visionaries like Jack London, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, John Muir, and Charles Keeler, but it's the forgotten sages and the ephemeral notes and invitations that paint the fullest picture of a community that was, even then, a little weird.

Max Goldberg