Tour, Walk

You are invited to walk with David on the mountain and learn about the history of this remarkable refuge for endangered butterflies and rare native plants.

This walk will explore Berkeley’s “New Deal nexus” that includes Post Office art, Berkeley High School, the Community Theater, Civic Center Park, and the old Farm Credit Building.

This walk will explore the many locations where activists lived and the houses that were home to experimental communes.

This year is the 80th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike.
This walk will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” that spontaneously began with rank-and-file solidarity with the striking, mostly women retail clerks at Kahn’s and Hastings.

In this history-by-the-buildings walk, Brad Wiedmaier will outline artifacts and events, and their connections to San Francisco’s past and present.