Michele Zack, historian and award winning author of Altadena: Between Wilderness and City, will give a talk illustrated with historic images from her new book, Southern California Story at 7:30 pm on Monday, Jan. 25 at the Altadena Community Center. Her new work integrates aspects of Sierra Madre into regional and national history, and the topic of Monday's program will be the interesting connections and contrasts among Sierra Madre, Altadena, & Pasadena.
This program is jointly sponsored by the Altadena Historical Society and the Friends of the Altadena Library.
When: Monday, January 25 @ 7:30 pm
Where: Altadena Community Center
730 East Altadena Drive
Altadena, CA 91001
Information: Jane Brackman ahspresident@earthlink.net, 626-797-8016 or www.altadenalibrary.org ; 626-798-0833
This program is jointly sponsored by the Altadena Historical Society and the Friends of the Altadena Library.
When: Monday, January 25 @ 7:30 pm
Where: Altadena Community Center
730 East Altadena Drive
Altadena, CA 91001
Information: Jane Brackman ahspresident@earthlink.net, 626-797-8016 or www.altadenalibrary.org ; 626-798-0833
Bio: Zack, in addition to her writing career, has served three terms on the Altadena Town Council, spearheaded the Watershed Committee, and devoted much time to Altadena Heritage and the Altadena Foothills Conservancy. Currently she works with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West on a federal Teaching American History Grant with public school teachers, integrating state history into national history.
In the1990s she lived in Thailand and California as AsiaWeek's correspondent, and was a regular contributor to Far Eastern Economic Review. She is also the author of a popular ethnography of a wandering hill tribe in Southeast Asia, co-author of Fielding's Guide to Thailand, and has written widely on business and culture in Southeast Asia.
