“A Chile Day in Sausalito” – by Georgia I. Hesse
“A Chile Day in Sausalito”
By Georgia I. Hesse
BATW Event, Spinnaker restaurant - Photo by Mike Moyle
Some BATW members arrived at Sausalito’s Spinnaker restaurant on Jan. 21 to find new attractions in a familiar setting. The view stretching down the bay to San Francisco sparkled as usual,...
“Sri Lanka” – by Georgia Hesse
From Georgia Hesse’s column in the Foreign Travel Club of San Francisco’s December 2011 newsletter:
A SENSE OF TRAVEL . . . With Georgia Hesse
Sri Lanka Map
Sri Lanka boasts more names than there are grains of rice in a paddy – Ceylon (British colonial name, dropped in 1972), Serendip (from...
“Revolution: Computing the First 2000 Years” – by David Laws
The Neiman Marcus Kitchen computer
On Saturday, May 21st, 35 BATW members and friends traveled through 2,000 years of computing history. And, courtesy of Mark Coker of Smashwords, took a peek into the future of their craft.
The May meeting, hosted by the Computer History Museum, began with a generous...
Patricia Arrigoni Writes About Four BATW Meeting Hosts
Four recent stories by Patricia Arrigoni were syndicated with Creators Syndicate, which bought out Copley News Service:
“A Walk Along the San Francisco Waterfront”
“A New Disney Family Museum Premieres”
“Day-tripping to the Marin Headlands the Marine Mammal Center”
“The Godfather Moves...
Ginny Prior Writes “Dancing and Reminiscing in Pacifica”
BATW BOD Retreat Pacifica © John Montgomery
“Dancing and Reminiscing in Pacifica” by Ginny Prior
Showing affection on the dance floor isn’t really my style. I’ve seen couples sway in an ardent embrace as their feet move in sync to the beat. That’s not me. It hasn’t...
Sheila O’Connor Writes “Filoli, California, A Place of Great Serenity”
Filoli Gardens Fountain © John Montgomery
Sheila O’Connor captures the essence of Filoli Gardens in her most recent Examiner.com article—and solves the mystery behind the name (hint: it’s not Italian). The mellifluous name derives from the credo of the Bourn family, who built the estate—“FIght...
“Hop Off the Technology Grid at Filoli” — by Mary-Ann Bendel
Filoli Walled Garden © John Montgomery
“Hop Off the Technology Grid at Filoli” by Mary-Ann Bendel
The April 16 meeting at Filoli Gardens was not the usual one: After a short business meeting, we had a docent-led tour of the estate’s elegant house and gardens in three groups of 10.
The gardens...
“Walk Among Giants: BATW Private Tour of Olmec Art at the de Young” — by Sandy Sims
Walking Among Giants:
BATW members’ private tour of Olmec Art at the de Young
by Sandy Sims
Colossal Olmec Head 5, 1200–900 BC. Museo de Antropologia de Xalapa, Universidad Veracruzana
It seems no art exhibit is too rare, too distant or too colossal for San Francisco’s de Young Museum. In a little...
“Olmec, Ancient Civilization in Mexico, Now at de Young Museum” by Sheila O’Connor
Sheila O’Connor wrote a piece about the Olmec exhibit at the de Young Museum. You’ll find it at:
http://www.examiner.com/world-travel-in-san-francisco/sf-olmec-ancient-civilization-mexico-now-at-de-young-museum#ixzz1EjpBIsCd
A Sense of Travel: Reflections on Lebanon — by Georgia Hesse
Lebanon
I first set foot and heart in Lebanon in the late 1960s when that antique land was enjoying a time of relative peace and prosperity, attracting travelers from around the globe who entered via Beirut, which was nicknamed then “the Paris of the Middle East.” Like me, they came lured by...
