Friends of Montclair Library

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for our book club discussion of Oakland: The Story of a City by Beth Bagwell!

If you’re interested in learning more about some of the people and places from Oakland history discussed in the book, here are a few resources to explore:

• OPL’s Oakland History Center
• African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO)
• Oakland Heritage Alliance (OHA) (check out their summer walking tours!)
• Paramount Theatre tours
• Oakland Museum of California (visit free through Discover & Go)
• Peralta Hacienda
• Oakland History Facebook Group
• The East Bay Yesterday podcast
• Oakland Geology
• Mountain View Cemetery tour and map (OHA also frequently does excellent walking tours here)
• Oakland waterfront history map from Waterfront Action (if you’ve read the book, you know the waterfront melodrama and machinations that are a big part of Oakland’s history!)

If you have any favorite resources to add, please mention them in the comments!

P.S. For March, we’ll be reading The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater.