Events › Point Reyes and Tomales Bay: A People’s History in Print

Point Reyes is known for its organic farms and food, its natural beauty preserved in public parks, its creative communities, and its Instagram-ready attractions. If one looks back in history, the area surrounding Tomales Bay is also notable for the resilience of its Indigenous community, for the creation of the western dairy industry and its technological innovations, for the 1960s rock stars who lived in or frequented the area, and as a superb living example of America’s melting pot, where immigrants settled to find better lives—and succeeded.Dewey’s new book, Point Reyes And Tomales Bay, chronicles the land and people of Point Reyes, Tomales Bay, and the towns that were and still are very different from each other: Olema, Marshall, Point Reyes Station, and Inverness.

California historian Dewey Livingston has been fascinated with Marin history since high school, spending the past 55 years exploring and researching his home, especially West Marin. For decades a National Park Service historian specializing in the rural West, and ten years as a MCFL map archivist, he spent the past ten years on a comprehensive history of the Point Reyes area.

Sponsored by Friends of the Fairfax Library.

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