[OldNorth] New Davis History Book

[John Lofland]

Old North Neighbors,

Immodestly, I want to draw your attention to the reading and signing 
of the first book to treat the entire history of Davis.

This reading and signing will be Friday, November 12, 7:30-8:30 PM at 
the Avid Reader on Second Street in Davis. Details are given below 
(quoted from the Avid Reader newsletter).

I might also report that the reading will feature a display of a 
twelve foot long time-line of Davis history showing the nine periods 
into which one can divide its 137 years.

Hope you see you there. John Lofland

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Friday, November 12, 7:30-8:30. Local author John Lofland presents his book
Davis:  Radical Changes, Deep Constants.

Placed on the map by the California Pacific Railroad in 1868,
Davis has been radically different things over its thirteen-some decades: 
wheat-growing village, almond cultivation center, university farm 
locale, urbanizing
town, exploding suburb, progressive community, and university city.

Yet throughout these changes Davis remained the same in many ways, 
among them its
efforts to retain a small town character and a vital downtown.

Author and historian John Lofland, professor emeritus at UC Davis, 
specializes in the sociology of
local history and historic preservation. In this volume he examines Davis
history as the story of several different communities, each a 
reinvention of its
old self in response to a changing nation and world, but with enduring themes
that made each undeniably Davis.

Lofland also wrote Davis, California:  1910's - 1940's with Phyllis 
Haig. Another of his books, Demolishing a Historic Hotel, is only 
available through The Avid Reader.
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