Name/Title
The World Comes to Alameda, 2017Entry/Object ID
2021.119.4Description
Acc. No. 21.119.4
Subject Category: Mastick Senior Center, History of Alameda
Date or Period: 2017
Object: book
Description: softbound book with glossy card stock paper cover, featuring a monochromatic map of the Americas with a circular pop-out aerial color-view of Alameda. Title 'The World Comes to Alameda', subtitle, 'Life Stories by Members of Mastick Senior Center in Alameda, California. Authors, various, ISBN 9781978181847.
Size: L 9 x W 6 inches.
History of Object: Book with stories about the lives of 32 members of the Mastick Senior Center, including childhood recollections, war and travel tales, stories and poems. The book appears to be the result of a creative writing class given at the Mastick Center, but various of the stories reflect childhood stories of growing up in Alameda, or how the author came to Alameda from elsewhere.
Acquired from: Alameda Museum
Catalog Date: 10/21/2021
