Join us on Tuesday, August 29th at 7pm PT when Beth Winegarner joins us to celebrate the release of her book, San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries, with Heather Bourbeau at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/Af0R1TvQTs4
Praise for San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries
"Beth Winegarner's book traces the history of San Francisco through its forgotten cemeteries: their beginnings, their relocations, and the bodies that often remain. I thought I knew my beloved city but I wasn't looking deep enough - literally. Unique and eye-opening, I won't be able to walk these San Francisco streets without wondering what may still be buried just underfoot." --Caroline Paul, author of New York Times bestseller The Gutsy Girl
"San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries is an act of restorative justice." --Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting
About San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries
San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isn't exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city relocated more than 150,000 graves to the nearby town of Colma to make way for a rapidly growing population. But an estimated fifty to sixty thousand burials were quietly built over and forgotten, only to resurface every time a new building project began. The dead still lie beneath some of the city's most cherished destinations, including the Legion of Honor, United Nations Plaza, the Asian Art Museum and the University of San Francisco. Join author Beth Winegarner as she maps the city's early burial grounds and brings back to life the dead who've been erased.
About Beth Winegarner
Beth Winegarner is a journalist, author, essayist and pop culture critic who's contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. She is a former daily news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and a former contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Sonoma,The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens are Taking Them Back, and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. Her newest book, San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History, is out August 28, 2023.
About Heather Bourbeau
Heather Bourbeau's poetry and fiction have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. A former journalist, she was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her latest collection, Monarch, explores overlooked histories from the US West (Cornerstone Press, 2023).
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/Af0R1TvQTs4
Praise for San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries
"Beth Winegarner's book traces the history of San Francisco through its forgotten cemeteries: their beginnings, their relocations, and the bodies that often remain. I thought I knew my beloved city but I wasn't looking deep enough - literally. Unique and eye-opening, I won't be able to walk these San Francisco streets without wondering what may still be buried just underfoot." --Caroline Paul, author of New York Times bestseller The Gutsy Girl
"San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries is an act of restorative justice." --Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting
About San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries
San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isn't exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city relocated more than 150,000 graves to the nearby town of Colma to make way for a rapidly growing population. But an estimated fifty to sixty thousand burials were quietly built over and forgotten, only to resurface every time a new building project began. The dead still lie beneath some of the city's most cherished destinations, including the Legion of Honor, United Nations Plaza, the Asian Art Museum and the University of San Francisco. Join author Beth Winegarner as she maps the city's early burial grounds and brings back to life the dead who've been erased.
About Beth Winegarner
Beth Winegarner is a journalist, author, essayist and pop culture critic who's contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. She is a former daily news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and a former contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Sonoma,The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens are Taking Them Back, and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. Her newest book, San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History, is out August 28, 2023.
About Heather Bourbeau
Heather Bourbeau's poetry and fiction have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. A former journalist, she was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her latest collection, Monarch, explores overlooked histories from the US West (Cornerstone Press, 2023).
Join us on Tuesday, August 29th at 7pm PT when Beth Winegarner joins us to celebrate the release of her book, San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries, with Heather Bourbeau at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/Af0R1TvQTs4
Praise for San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries
"Beth Winegarner's book traces the history of San Francisco through its forgotten cemeteries: their beginnings, their relocations, and the bodies that often remain. I thought I knew my beloved city but I wasn't looking deep enough - literally. Unique and eye-opening, I won't be able to walk these San Francisco streets without wondering what may still be buried just underfoot." --Caroline Paul, author of New York Times bestseller The Gutsy Girl
"San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries is an act of restorative justice." --Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting
About San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries
San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isn't exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city relocated more than 150,000 graves to the nearby town of Colma to make way for a rapidly growing population. But an estimated fifty to sixty thousand burials were quietly built over and forgotten, only to resurface every time a new building project began. The dead still lie beneath some of the city's most cherished destinations, including the Legion of Honor, United Nations Plaza, the Asian Art Museum and the University of San Francisco. Join author Beth Winegarner as she maps the city's early burial grounds and brings back to life the dead who've been erased.
About Beth Winegarner
Beth Winegarner is a journalist, author, essayist and pop culture critic who's contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. She is a former daily news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and a former contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Sonoma,The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens are Taking Them Back, and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. Her newest book, San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History, is out August 28, 2023.
About Heather Bourbeau
Heather Bourbeau's poetry and fiction have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. A former journalist, she was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her latest collection, Monarch, explores overlooked histories from the US West (Cornerstone Press, 2023).
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/Af0R1TvQTs4
Praise for San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries
"Beth Winegarner's book traces the history of San Francisco through its forgotten cemeteries: their beginnings, their relocations, and the bodies that often remain. I thought I knew my beloved city but I wasn't looking deep enough - literally. Unique and eye-opening, I won't be able to walk these San Francisco streets without wondering what may still be buried just underfoot." --Caroline Paul, author of New York Times bestseller The Gutsy Girl
"San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries is an act of restorative justice." --Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting
About San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries
San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isn't exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city relocated more than 150,000 graves to the nearby town of Colma to make way for a rapidly growing population. But an estimated fifty to sixty thousand burials were quietly built over and forgotten, only to resurface every time a new building project began. The dead still lie beneath some of the city's most cherished destinations, including the Legion of Honor, United Nations Plaza, the Asian Art Museum and the University of San Francisco. Join author Beth Winegarner as she maps the city's early burial grounds and brings back to life the dead who've been erased.
About Beth Winegarner
Beth Winegarner is a journalist, author, essayist and pop culture critic who's contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. She is a former daily news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and a former contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Sonoma,The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens are Taking Them Back, and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. Her newest book, San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History, is out August 28, 2023.
About Heather Bourbeau
Heather Bourbeau's poetry and fiction have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. A former journalist, she was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her latest collection, Monarch, explores overlooked histories from the US West (Cornerstone Press, 2023).
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