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  • The 1923 Fire: Berkeley’s First Wildfire Disaster

    November 5, 2023 – March 23, 2024 Curator: Steven Finacom The early fall is “fire weather” season in Berkeley. Anyone who has lived in the town for a few years or more knows what this means. The weather turns warm, the typical pattern of cool breezes off San Francisco Bay slows and stalls, and hot,…

  • Touching Ground, Putting Down Roots: Chinese in Berkeley

    April 30 – September 30, 2023 The history of immigration to the United States is often portrayed as a great western movement of European peoples, across the Atlantic and then across the North American continent. But beginning with the California Gold Rush, the U.S. has also been populated by people moving east, across the Pacific…