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Sonoma Community Center / Pamela Hallan-Gibson and Kathy Swett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hallan-Gibson, Pamela, 1944- author.
- Swett, Kathy, author.
- Series:
- Images of America.
- Images of America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--California--Sonoma--History--Pictorial works.
- Education.
- Public schools--California--Sonoma--History--Pictorial works.
- Public schools.
- Civic centers--California--Sonoma--History--Pictorial works.
- Civic centers.
- Sonoma (Calif.)--History--Pictorial works.
- Sonoma (Calif.).
- Sonoma Grammar School (Sonoma, Calif.)--History--Pictorial works.
- Sonoma Grammar School (Sonoma, Calif.).
- Sonoma Community Center (Sonoma, Calif.)--History--Pictorial works.
- Sonoma Community Center (Sonoma, Calif.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- If these redbrick walls could talk, a chorus of voices from 100 years of community use would echo all that was good about Sonoma: the love of food and wine, the search for cultural enrichment, and the need to care for people. Since the day it opened as the Sonoma Grammar School, the center has promoted education, the arts, and a respect for history. Thousands of elementary-age students walked its halls until 1948, when building codes closed it as a public school. But it was reborn in 1952 as the Sonoma Community Center due to generous donors who formed a nonprofit organization to save the building they considered the heart and soul of Sonoma. Since then, thousands of others have used its classrooms, lecture halls, and auditorium to be entertained, to celebrate events, to develop creative interests, and to cultivate their sense of community.
- Contents:
- Sonoma's educational heritage
- Sonoma Grammar School, boom to depression
- War, recovery, and closure
- A new vision for community education
- Community takes center stage
- Reconstruction
- Living history.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439648919
- 1439648913
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