Description
Lecture
Location
Central Garden
Date & Time
February 11th: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Member Apprecition: Evening Lecture - William E. Smythe and the Little Landers Movement
Speaker Bill MacGowan grew up in Newport Beach, but lives in Boulder, Colorado and is retired after a 40+ year career in corporate human resources with companies such as Sun Microsystems, Northrop Grumman, Allergan, and Newmont. As a direct descendant of William E. Smythe, he has spent many years studying the fascinating life of Smythe.
William E. Smythe (1866-1922) was a journalist, author, politician, and utopian colonist who is considered to be a leader in our country’s back-to-the-land and national reclamation movements. He wrote four books, including the classic Conquest of Arid America (1900) and The History of San Diego (1907), which was included in the Dawson 80 list of distinguished Southern California books. He led a fascinating life with important associations that included: Charles Lummis, William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Bernard Maybeck, John Wesley Powell, and Louis Brandeis. As a utopian colonist he also founded the Little Lander towns of Tujunga, San Ysidro, and Standish (California) and New Plymouth (Idaho).
As part of Member Appreciation Week, this lecture is being offered to our members free of charge.
