Just who was the Marquis de La Fayette? Find out on Sunday, May 6, 2018 – 1:30 p.m. Lafayette Library & Learning Center – Community Hall Please join us for an informative program about the man whom after our city is named and who played such an important role in the establishment of our nation. […]
Speaker Series: “Getting to School in Lafayette in the 20th Century”
Make your plans to join us for another of Stu Swiedler’s informative talks! Sunday, January 21, 2018 – 2:00 p.m. Lafayette Library & Learning Center – Arts & Science Room If you think about it, not long ago all of the school kinds in Lafayette could ride horses to school. They drove tractors and […]
Speaker Series: Lafayette’s History Through Modern Media
Please join us on October 15 @ 2:00 p.m. for this most interesting look back at the history of our towns! Even if you don’t know Mark Harrigan’s name from Facebook pages: “You know you’re from Lafayette CA when” and “You know you’re from Lafayette CA when” and “680/24 Corridor History”, you will be amazed […]
Speaker Series: A Conversation with a Well Known Author
Author and historian Richard Schwartz will deliver an illustrated talk about the fascinating life story of Jewish immigrant actor M.B. Curtis. Date . . . . .Sunday July 16, 2017 Time . . . . 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Place . . . . Lafayette Library & Learning Center – Community Hall Donation Requested $10.00 LHS […]
Speaker Series: The History of Lafayette Libraries
The earliest records of a library in Lafayette are dated in receipts held by Benjamin Shreve in the 1870’s. So we know a Library in our city was always important. In 1923, the Lafayette Improvement Association moved the 2nd schoolhouse from it’s location on Moraga Road to Mt. Diablo Blvd. where it became the Post […]
Lafayette, CA Cemetery Tour (7-24-2016)
For those who couldn’t make it out to the recent tour of the cemetery, here is a video of it.
Upcoming Two-Part Speaker Series: The History and Tour of the Lafayette Cemetery
Listen to stories of pioneers resting in our Cemetery and then take a tour! The Lafayette Cemetery is the final resting place for Benjamin Shreve, the man who named our city, and Jennie Bickerstaff Rosenberg, Lafayette’s beloved pioneer school teacher. History comes alive at the cemetery when visiting the plots of a Civil War veteran, […]
Upcoming Speaker Series: Ships, Bombs and Steel
Stuart Swiedler will be speaking for LHS again! Board a plane or ride the rails to experience the industrial transformation of the north coast of Contra Costa County. We’ll witness the scheme to produce warships, the struggle of a community to fend off the import of bombs and other nuclear weapons, learn the new names […]
Upcoming Speaker Series: Lafayette: “Then and Now in Photographs”
You Won’t Want to Miss Our Speaker on November 22nd! Steve Hobbs, local photographer, is now creating a new pictorial history of Lafayette Please join the us when we welcome Steve Hobbs on November 22nd at 1:30 in the Lafayette Library & Learning Center’s Community Hall. Steve says “everything I learned about photography […]
Upcoming Speaker Series: Growing Grapes & Making Wine in Lamorinda: History & Present
Please join us for our October 25, 2015 Speaker Series Program From the Rossi Family Vineyards in 1917 To Sophisticated Winemakers Today The Lamorinda microclimate and topography has long been an ideal location for grape growing and now winemaking! Please join the Lafayette Historical Society in welcoming Leslie Ward, president of the Lamorinda Wine Growers […]
