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Quarterly Lecture Series
The Sonoma County Historical Society and the Sonoma County Museum are pleased to present noted individuals speaking on topics of interest to everyone in Sonoma County and Northern California.
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Noted newspaper columnist and historian Gaye LeBaron and Dan Markwyn of the Sonoma County Historical Records Commission, will be the guest speakers at the 2nd session of the quarterly lecture series sponsored by the Sonoma County Historical Society and Sonoma County Museum. |
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Dan Markwyn, retired Sonoma State University Professor, will give an overview of Utopian communities. LeBaron will explore “Fountaingrove,” the fascinating 19th century utopian community created by Thomas Lake Harris. Harris, the leader of the Brotherhood of New Life, created his colony in England in the late 1850s and moved it to New York state around 1860. Arriving in Sonoma County in the mid-1870s. |
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Admission for the Feb. 7 event is $7.50 general admission, $5 students and seniors and $3, members of Museum or Historical Society.
Doors open at 6:30 and lecture starts at 7 p.m.
The location is the Sonoma County Museum, 425 7th St., Santa Rosa.
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Gaye LeBaron is a native Californian, a graduate of Sonoma Valley High School, Santa Rosa Junior College and the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote her first column for The Press Democrat, after several years as a reporter, in 1959. She is the author, with Dee Blackman, Harvey Hansen and Joann Mitchell, of “Santa Rosa, a 19th Century Town,” and, with Mitchell, of “Santa Rosa a 20th Century Town.” She lectured, for 35 years, on Sonoma County history in SRJC’s Community Education program and has taught several courses for Sonoma State University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She is married to photographer John LeBaron. They have an adult daughter and son and a grandson, all of whom are Sonoma County residents.
After completing a doctorate in history at Cornell University, Dan Markwyn joined the faculty at Sonoma State University in 1970 where he taught courses in American and California history before retiring as a Professor of History in 2000. He teaches from time to time in the Osher Lifelong Learning Program at SSU and serves on the Sonoma County Historical Records Commission. He and his wife Jo live in Santa Rosa.
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