For anyone who is interested in California history, an aficionado on the subject as well as well respected author and scholar and once State Librarian Kevin Starr is doing a book signing and lecture Wednesday, August 26th @ 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the Museum of San Diego History in Balboa Park. I am on the RSVP list already and I am so excited!
I feel I have a personal connection which has prompted me to go. First, I have in the past not been as interested in California history, often dismissing the topic as lawless, Southwest stories. However, I began to intern at the San Diego Archaeological Center, and my project was to go through and arrange and catalog a large donated collection of documents, books, magazines, and journals. The donation was from a retired San Diego State University professor named Dr. Raymond Starr. He is the brother of Kevin Starr and he too is a scholar of history, California in particular. As I began to archive this massive comprehensive collection of California history I began to be fully immersed in the topic. I am completely fascinated about all aspects of the state's rich history.
This past summer as well, I took a history class, History of the Americas 19th & 20th
century. One of the books, California: a history by Kevin Starr. Reading it only made me more intrigued by the subject. It even led me to investigate my own home town of Rancho Bernardo which was fascinating. To me RB has always been a quaint little suburb that arose during the 1970's... little did I know...
This past summer as well, I took a history class, History of the Americas 19th & 20th
century. One of the books, California: a history by Kevin Starr. Reading it only made me more intrigued by the subject. It even led me to investigate my own home town of Rancho Bernardo which was fascinating. To me RB has always been a quaint little suburb that arose during the 1970's... little did I know...Link to RB history:
Link to San Diego Historical Society Calendar:
Link to an article on Kevin Starr:
As a footnote and update to this post, I was misinformed. Kevin Starr is not the brother of Raymond Starr. And how did I find this out you may ask? When I tried to be really cool and talk to Kevin Starr at his book signing and segway into a conversation with "I have been archiving your brother's collection". Yeah so a little foot in mouth on my part but in the end I felt redeemed because he personally mentioned me twice during the lecture so apparently it was no big deal. Of course I was kicking myself for about 2 hours for the faux pas.
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