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Tracing Anza’s Trail: Dec 29
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Borregomike Posts: 11
12/23/2012
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Dec. 29, Sat., 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Tracing Anza’s Trail: A Photographer’s Journey
Presenter: Nina Egert, Ph.D.
Photos from Dr. Egert's Book (Above)
After Nina Egert returned from conducting doctoral fieldwork in the Himalayas, she became interested in discovering the history of her own surroundings in the East Bay Hills. The earliest documentation were the journals of the Spanish explorers who rode through the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay in search of an overland route northward. Fascinated by the insightful writings of Pedro Font, the chaplain on the 1775-1776 Anza Expedition, Dr. Egert began to seek out and photograph vestiges of Alta California as Font described it at the moment of first contact with European settlers. This resulted in her book, Tracing Anza’s Trail: A Photographers Journey. Tonight, Dr. Egert shares Font’s vision of California, with an eye to environmental issues. NM $10, M $8, V $7. At the ABDNHA Library. Call to reserve.
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