From: Info <info@californiapioneers.org> The SOCIETY of CALIFORNIA PIONEERS Requests the pleasure of your company at The ALBERT SHUMATE LECTURE An annual lecture series in honor of Dr. Albert Shumate We are honored to present JoAnn Levy Author of They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush "Women Were Forty-niners, Too" Wednesday, October 17, 2001 11:30 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, The Franciscan Room 450 Powell Street San Francisco $42 per person (includes luncheon and lecture) Payment must be received by 12:00 noon on Monday, October 15 to reserve your space. We apologize, but we are unable to accommodate walk-ups Please mail your check to: The SOCIETY of CALIFORNIA PIONEERS 300 Fourth Street San Francisco, CA 94107-1272 For more information, call (415) 957-1849; www.californiapioneers.org JoAnn Levy is the author of the now-classic They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush. Her first fiction, Daughter of Joy, A Novel of Gold Rush San Francisco, won the 1999 Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction. Her second novel, For California's Gold, debuted at the National Archives in Washington, DC, where Levy was invited to speak in honor of Women's History Month and California's statehood sesquicentennial. A frequent speaker on behalf of the gold-rushing women she discovered in nearly a decade of research, Levy has been featured in numerous PBS documentaries and A&E. She lives and writes in Sutter Creek, a historic gold-rush town in the heart of California's Mother Lode. Parking is available at the Sutter-Stockton Garage. BART & MUNI: Powell Street Station