Friends of the Library Author Talk: Richard W. Crawford

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Featured, Online/Virtual, Literature, Local Author

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Adults, Older Adults
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San Diego today is a vibrant and bustling coastal city, but it wasn't always so. The city's transformation from a rough-hewn border town and frontier port to a vital military center was marked by growing pains and political clashes. Civic highs and criminal lows have defined San Diego's rise through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a preeminent Sun Belt city. Historian Richard W. Crawford recalls the significant events and one-of-a-kind characters like baseball hero Albert Spalding, escape artist Harry Houdini, and novelist Scott O'Dell. Join Crawford for a talk that recounts how San Diego yesterday laid the foundation for the city's bright future.

Richard Crawford is the former Supervisor of Special Collections at the San Diego Public Library. He was also the Archives Director at the San Diego Historical Society, where he edited the Journal of San Diego History for nine years. Born in Long Beach, he has been a San Diegan since 1973. He has degrees in history (San Diego State University) and library science (San Jose State University). As a historian and archivist, he has written extensively on local history, including the books Stranger Than Fiction: Vignettes of San Diego History (1995), The Way We Were in San Diego (November 2011), and San Diego Yesterday (May 2013).

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