Event Listing - Literary Arts, Organizations

Tue Nov 13, 2007

San Francisco Museum and Historical Society presents

Robert Louis Stevenson's birthday celebration

Tales of the author's unusual life by John Gaul

Tel. 415 775-1111
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Location	Date and Time
St. John's Presbyterian Church 25 Lake Street San Francisco, CA 94118 cross street: Arguello Boulevard district: San Francisco	Tue Nov 13, 2007 (7:30 p.m.) - Talk will be followed by champagne/cake celebration

Description

Robert Louis Stevenson was a tusitala (teller of tales), a master of the grim and the ghoulish, and a gentle, adventurous soul who also wrote children’s verses.

He bequeathed his birthday to a little girl without one. Because she had the misfortune of being born on Christmas Day, she never had a “proper” birthday until Stevenson gave her his own, Nov. 13.

The writer’s life will be celebrated at a 7:30 p.m. event on that date hosted by the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society. It will include accounts of scalping by Indians, sailing to the South Seas, and details of life in an artist’s colony.
Monthly programs are free to SFMHS members. This month donations, from members and non-members, are earmarked for the restoration and preservation St. John's magnificent stained glass windows. For additional information, call (415) 775-1111, ext. 5 or go to www.sfhistory.org.