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SFMHS Monthly Programs

The 2010 SFMHS program schedule will continue the Neighborhood theme from 2009 but also cover other timely subjects during the coming year.

These programs are free to SFMHS members and as described for each program. Admission for non-members is $5 per person.

Please join us at 7 PM for a reception before each program.

Alamo Square: Pearl of the Western Addition

Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 7:30 PM

Kanbar Hall
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street at Presidio Avenue

Charles Fracchia will present an illustrated lecture of this relic of San Francisco's Silver Age, and how it mirrors many of the changes that have occurred in the Western Addition since its development in the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century.

There will be a companion walk to this program on Saturday, February 20.

Potrero Hill: The Quintessential Village-on-a-Hill

Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:30 PM

St. Theresa's Church Parish Hall
19th and Connecticut Streets

From a pastoral peninsula to a multi-ethnic working class enclave, Potrero Hill has witnessed several tides of change over the last 200 years. Not least of these was the complete reshaping of the hill itself. Peter Linenthal and Abigail Johnston of the Potrero Hill Archives Project will give a slide talk on the neighbhorhood's history, exploring these dramatic physical and social changes. Linenthal and Johnston are co-authors of San Francisco's Potrero Hill and Then & Now - Potrero Hill (Arcadia Publishing).

Discussion with long-time Hill residents Renee Strong and George Bushneff will follow. Strong's grandparents were part of the movement of African Americans from the South to the Bay Area in the 1940s to working in military industries. She graduated from the brand-new Potrero Hill Junior High in 1974. Bushneff is a member of Potrero Hill's Russian Molokan community. His parents arrived on the Hill shortly after the 1906 earthquake and he remembers well their goats on Potrero Hill's southern slopes.

SFMHS monthly programs are sponsored in part by a grant from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.