A wonderful retrospective journey for the 50th Anniversary of The Summer of Love The documentary film LIFE IS A MOVIE—the story of avant-garde filmmaker and photographer, Larry Moyer—had its world premiere May 19 at the Nice International Filmmaker Festival (Nice IFF) 2017. Held at the beginning of, and just up the Côtes d’Azur...
The September 30, 2017 Floating Homes Tour will tie in with the 75th Anniversary of Marinship, which helped to foster today’s waterfront community. Although Gate 6 Road and the area north of there weren’t technically part of the vast WWII shipyard, these areas were settled after the war by returning...
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In addition to 2017 being the 75th anniversary of Marinship, this is also the 50th anniversary of San Francisco’s fabled Summer of Love. The kickoff of that months-long celebration was the KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival on June 10 and 11, 1967 at the Amphitheatre on Mount Tam....
Congratulations are in order. The news is just in that the Charles Van Damme Ferry Project has received approval from the BCDC (San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission) for the project’s addition to the new Waldo Point Harbor (WPH) public pier and park. This is the last in a long chain...
After 15 years of hard work and zealous fundraising, the tall ship Matthew Turner will be launched on April 1 (no, this is not a joke). The square-rigger is a modernized version of the Galilee, the fastest and finest West Coast brigantine of the late 1800s, which was built...
The Floating Homes Association has begun recording oral histories of long-term residents. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Ron Moreland—who first moved onto East Pier in 1975, along with his wife, Cathy. Together, they have been very active members of the community and especially the FHA. They are planning...
The Sausalito Library is presenting a series of documentaries with local historic significance. All films will be screened on Fridays at 7pm inside the Library. The series begins February 10 with a new documentary, “Soul of Sausalito,” from the Miwok Indians through a series of invasions — the Spanish, the Portuguese, the hippies and,...
From co-director of the Charles Van Damme Ferry Project, Judyth Greenburgh: We have many plans for 2017. Please come to our next Steering Crew Meeting. We are looking to create an official board – secretary, chair, treasurer, grant writer / fundraiser etc. Please invite anyone you think would be...
As has been written, Muriel was a tennis pro and a sophisticated lady. She was also a down to earth, caring person, with a love of life. Long after Muriel retired from tennis and globetrotting, she drove a school bus for special needs children – for many years. She...