Hi all, For those of you in the Los Angeles area, this sounds like a neat lecture. Usually these things don't charge for lectures, and unless they're inundated by the public, you can blend in with the rest. I'd go if I lived anywhere nearby. Carol Tucson >Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:49:45 -0500 >Reply-To: H-Net Western History List <H-WEST@H-NET.MSU.EDU> >Sender: H-Net Western History List <H-WEST@H-NET.MSU.EDU> >From: "Catherine Lavender, H-WEST" <lavender@mail.h-net.msu.edu> >Subject: INVITE: W.P. Whitsett Lecture in California History (Cal State > Northridge) >Comments: cc: h-california@h-net.msu.edu >To: H-WEST@H-NET.MSU.EDU > >>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:38:47 -0800 >>From: Tom Maddux <thomas.maddux@csun.edu> > >The Department of History will hold the annual W.P. Whitsett >Lecture in California History on Friday, March 30th at 8 p.m. >in the Grand Salon of the U.S.U. Dr. Janet Fireman, Curator >and Chief of History at the Natural History Museum of Los >Angeles and editor of _California History_ will lecture on >"Horizons of Paradise: Perspectives on Los Angeles History". >The lecture is open to all faculty, staff and students. It >will be preceded by a reception at 5:30 p.m. and a dinner at >6:30. For reservations for the dinner, contact the History >Department at 818-677-3566. > >Dr. Fireman's lecture will explore her twenty-five years of >impressions and reflections on Los Angeles, the pictures of >the present that she has pasted over images of the past in >the scrapbook of divergent historical memory. Los Angeles >has the image of a place of light, opportunity, and happiness >as well as the image of a place of darkness, excess, nastiness, >disaster, and corruption. In her lecture Dr. Fireman will >evoke features of these two tropes that are easily recognized, >and astonishingly familiar to practically everyone who has >ever heard of the City of the Angels, L.A. > >Tom Maddux >History ><thomas.maddux@csun.edu> > > Carol De Priest <http://www.goodnet.com/~dpriest/>