Long Lost Oakland, chapter 2
“When the shipyard closed, my dad came home and cried”
Topics
Long Lost Oakland, chapter 1
Grizzly bears & redwood trees
“They can’t believe he lived here”
Why John Muir settled down in the East Bay
“We formed our own little communities”
Lenn Keller and the roots of the East Bay’s lesbian of color community
“You can’t replace that with photos”
Why so many buildings in Oakland have been picked up and moved
“The freest time of my life”
Richard Pryor’s transformative East Bay experience
“The queen of the West Coast blues”
Sugar Pie DeSanto serves up sweet & spicy stories
“I believe in the elders”
Pendarvis Harshaw on gathering OG wisdom
“Monsters rising out of the mud”
From industrial wasteland to renegade art gallery
“What about the underdog?”
Dorothea Lange never stopped fighting for freedom