Event Listing - Literary Arts, Books
Wed Oct 28

One City One Book presents

Cabbage Patches and Marble Orchards: San Francisco’s Necropolis at Colma


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San Francisco Main Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: Grove St.
district: Civic Center

Wed Oct 28 (6:30pm) - Latino/Hispanic Room B

Description
A talk from Colma cemetery expert Michael Svanevik, author of City of Souls: San Francisco’s Necropolis at Colma and Pillars of the Past: At Rest at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park. Learn about how an outlying farm community became part of San Francisco’s culture and the largest burial ground in the world.