Richard
Schwartz's Event Dates in 2024 - Speaking
Events and Media Events
This Week In America
with Rick Bratton interviews Richard Schwartz (now on
YouTube) about the most famous and forgotten immigrant to
American who lit the Statue of Liberty when Congress
turned off the lighting after the Lady's dedication and
how Mark Twain attempted to team up with Curtis to produce
a theatrical version of his new book, Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Click on the
link to the top left to hear the show.
"This is a fascinating book of someone
in history I had never heard of until I started
reading the book. And just fascinated by this guy... He has been dead for a hundred years but
his influence is invisibly effecting us still...We do
now know of M. B. Curtis thanks to the book... That's what's amazing- the resilience
[of M.B. Curtis]...Its an excellent read and leaves
you wanting more...and hopefully we'd love to see this
on the big screen because its such an
impactful story... Its an excellent book." Ric Bratton, Host, This Week in America
The
History Author Show. Release of
Radio Interview onThe History Author Showwith
Dean Karanyanis, iHeart Radio, about The
Man Who Lit Lady Liberty and M. B. Curtis's life and
influence.
To hear this interview on You
Tube, click the underlined text to the left.
San Rafael boxer Billy Shannon (Marin History Museum)
San Rafael's Boxing Professionals
at Billy Shannon's Villa training quarters (Marin
History Museum)
"I REALLY enjoyed your program
last night. I can only begin to fathom the
amount of research you put into the subject
and it is remarkable how many details that you
discovered and organized them in a manner that
is a very interesting and entertaining
program."
-- Richard Torney, Board Member on the
Kentfiled-Greenbrae Historical Society and the
Jose Moya del Pino/Ross HIstorical Society
February 4, 2024.
WTBF-AM/FM Radio. Troy, Alabama. The one
and only Doc Kirby, journalism professor, trumpet
player, Methodist Minister and radio celebrity for
forty-five years will interview Richard in regards
to his biography of M. B. Curtis on the show "On
the Bookshelf." Curtis had a
large fan base in the South and performed many times
there in sold-out theaters. Click
here to listen to the podcast.
February 29, 2024, The
Commonwealth Club. Richard makes his fourth
appearance at the Commonwealth Club where he will give
an illustrated talk about what daily life for everyday
people was like in Berkeley and the Bay Area around
1900.This world was totally
different and exactly the same as ours, both at the same
time. The talk will reveal the collisions of a rural
town’s transitioning into an urban city. It will put the
pendulum of change into perspective. 110 The Embarcadero, San
Francisco, CA 94105. 5.30pm. 415-597-6705.
RICHARD
SCHWARTZ: BERKELEY 1900―DAILY LIFE AT
THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
Local historian Richard
Schwartz returns to Commonwealth
Club World Affairs to captivate
you once again with his
characteristic blend of serious
history, fascinating images, and
“telling details” stories.
Schwartz shares eyewitness
accounts and unique views of
Berkeley from more than 120 years
ago, which show how profoundly the
landscape, culture, economy and
social values of modern Berkeley
have been shaped by what came
before.Berkeley
1900is
his definitive account of a
pivotal time in the life of one of
America's most beloved cities.
Join
us to see how much has changed, and
how much hasn’t, over almost 125
years.
March
21, 2024. Berkeleyside online newspaper
shares the truly heroic story of Berkeley woman Mary
Shaplin who climbs up on her elderly neighbor's roof to
put out a shingle fire with her bare hands and a garden
hose before it kills her neighbor. A truly amazing
story. The story is found in Richard's book "Berkeley
1900." Click on the Berkeleyside
link to view this article.
September 7, 2024, The
San Leandro Historical Society. Ever wonder what
everyday life for everyday people was like in 1900 in
the Bay Area? Come see the wonderfully entertaining
conclusions of historian Richard Schwartz's newspaper
research of his adopted era. Things were very different
back then...and exactly the same, both at the same time.
Take a trip back in time and see what your life might
have felt like at the turn of the century in the Bay
Area. It is both sobering and amazing. This FREE EVENT occurs at 2 PM at
the Little Brown Church (Home of the Historical
Society) 384 W. Estudillo Ave., San Leandro, CA.
Behind the Casa Peralta. Nonmembers are welcome! Tel.
SLHS at 510-969-0975
to register so they know how much food to provide.
Thanks!
FREE EVENT
Join us at the Historic Little Brown
Church for a slide show and talk presented by
historian Richard Schwartz, based on his book Berkeley
1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century. Picked by the San
Francisco Chronicle as a holiday Gift Book of the Year!
The book will be available for purchase and author
signing. If you attended his
presentation a few years ago about the 1868
earthquake, you know he is an entertaining and
informative speaker.
Immerse yourself in history at this FREE San Leandro
Historical Society event.
The Historic Little Brown Church, home of the San
Leandro Historical Society, is located at 384 W.
Estudillo Avenue, behind the Casa Peralta at 384 W.
Estudillo Avenue.
Poppy Talk, The
Luminous Relations of the California Poppy and
Human Populations of the Bay Area Wildcat Canyon Road and
South Park Drive in Tilden Regional Park,
Berkeley. Richard will walk us
through stories of the Native American
interactions, beliefs and uses of the California
Poppy; the change of worlds when the Spanish
arrived here with their livestock herds in the
late eighteenth century; how the poppy struggled
to survive the Gold Rush and the big squeeze-
the American-era land development; how the
California Poppy's glowing gifts deeply
permeated into the hearts and culture of
California; and the wonderful story of the work
of a self-taught pioneer
woman botanist of the
1870s-1900s whose determined efforts elevated
the poppy to the State Flower of California
in 1903.
