Under the Gables Newsletter

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Come to the Fair!

This issue of Under the Gables includes a lengthy article by Meg Linden titled.”The Inverness Fair Through Time” that traces the origins and changes of this community tradition beginning in 1947 and still celebrated every August in this rural community. There is also an excerpt of Dewey Livingston’s forthcoming book,… Read More »

Social & Cultural Organizations of West Marin

This issue features the exhibit “Social and Cultural Organizations of West Marin”, curated by Tom Branan and Meg Linden. The exhibit and newsletter articles focus on the buildings used to house local organizations including the churches and schools as well as the buildings constructed for more formal organizations like the… Read More »

Now and Then

This issue features the exhibit, “Now and Then,” historic photographs drawn from the archives of Point Reyes National Seashore paired with new images taken by members of the Latino Photo Project of Gallery Route One. There are two articles about the Shafter family history during the Civil War, and another… Read More »

Those Shafter Women

This newsletter highlights the exhibit, Those Shafter Women, curated by Tom Branan, Gayanne Enquist and Meg Linden.  Articles include an in-depth illustrated history by Meg Linden of the mothers, daughters, and wives in the Shafter family whom contributed to Point Reyes Peninsula history or found other interesting niches in which to… Read More »

Architectural Styles of West Marin

The newsletter highlights the exhibit, Architectural Styles of West Marin, originally curated by Mary Cardwell and Corwin Mocine in 1990. Articles include Mary Florence Burris and the Highland Lodge and Mabel L. Reed Marsden Knight by Meg Linden with contributions from Patricia A. McCurdy, and Ernest Coxhead’s Ties to Inverness. Other… Read More »