Join us as we celebrate the launch of Ruby Beth Winegarner's new book, San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries. Beth will be joined in conversation by fellow Ruby Julie Zigoris.

This event will include a conversation, short reading, and Q&A. We'll also have snacks and libations!

Books will be available for purchase at the event from our friends at Dog Eared Books!

About San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries

San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isn’t exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city relocated more than 150,000 graves to the nearby town of Colma to make way for a rapidly growing population. But an estimated fifty to sixty thousand burials were quietly built over and forgotten, only to resurface every time a new building project began. The dead still lie beneath some of the city’s most cherished destinations, including the Legion of Honor, United Nations Plaza, the Asian Art Museum and the University of San Francisco. Join author Beth Winegarner as she maps the city's early burial grounds and brings back to life the dead who've been erased.

About Beth Winegarner

Beth Winegarner is a journalist, author, essayist and pop culture critic who’s contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. She is a former daily news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and a former contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Sonoma, The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens are Taking Them Back, and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa.

About Julie Zigoris

Julie Zigoris is a collector of stories, languages and careers. Before becoming a journalist for the San Francisco Standard, she taught English and Soviet history at the University of Pittsburgh, Stanford University, the Jewish Community HS of the Bay and at Mt. Tamalpais College in San Quentin Prison. She’s the author of Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag and is represented by Red Fox Literary. A fan of polka dots and passionfruit, you will often find her hanging out with plants. Pennsylvanian by birth and Hungarian by blood, she is now devoted to all things San Francisco.