Marin County CA Archives History - Books .....Preface To The Original Edition 1958 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com April 11, 2007, 12:51 am Book Title: Shark Point - High Point Preface to the Original Edition THERE IS, I believe, no thrill to equal living history. And for the past ten weeks the eighth grade and I have been transported back to the earliest history of Marin County. We have stood on the deck of the San Carlos, searching for the sea entrance to the bay that legend says lies beyond the "mouth of tides". We have been guests of the Jouskionmes Indians for the ceremonial games on Mount Tamalpais. We have watched John Reed - adventurer, ferryman, farmer, gentleman. We have heard the haunting whistle of the first train into Tiburon, carrying with it, literally, the settlement of Donahue Landing, moving it onto the flats of the "shark" peninsula-to make a railroad stop for Peter Donahue's new rail line. We have seen the ferry pulling out from the slip for Tam High School, turned back ourselves toward grammar school under Miss Boynton, stopping long enough to buy "flesh wegtables and fluit" from the Chinese vegetable man from San Francisco. We've heard stories of the amazing experiments of Dr. Lyford in embalming at his laboratory out on Strawberry Point. We've stayed up late to hear the music of the "Nights in Venice", open house for all the "descendants of Noah" on the Lagoon. We have seen wood being sawed for the Presidio in Yerba Buena (San Francisco), seen the hills stripped of soil for the bricks to build that city, seen the glow in the sky from the fires that followed the great earthquake in 1906. We have handled the rock chips in the quarry, smelled the cod from the Bering Sea drying on the Union Fish wharves on Belvedere, watched the commuter ferry boats race past Angel Island. From our first voyage with Ayala to our last clipping from the Pelican, we have been a part of this living history. Through the eyes of early map-makers, folk artists and tin-type photographers; through the journals of pioneers; from the memories and scrap-books of most of those persons in our own community who remember the beginning story of Belvedere and the growing pains of Tiburon; and through the writings of journalists in the San Francisco and local papers, we have been able to reconstruct this story. The authors' own account of "How this Book was Written" is perhaps the most interesting section. After the project was completed, the entire class wrote themes with the title: "How a Book was Written."-Then the individual themes were literally cut apart, sentence by sentence, and some sample chapters put together At least one sentence from every child was included. The class voted to use the version that you now will read. Joyce Wilson Reed School January, 1954 Additional Comments: Extracted from: Shark Point - High Point An Illustrated History of TIBURON & BELVEDERE IN MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA BY EIGHTH GRADERS OF THE REED SCHOOL CLASSES OF 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 PUBLISHED BY THE REED SCHOOL DISTRICT PARENT-TEACHER CLUB BELVEDERE-TIBURON MCMLVIII Designed by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco 3000 Copies Printed by R. G. Fontana & Son, San Anselmo File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ca/marin/history/1958/sharkpoi/prefacet508nms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb