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  1. Oral History of Jesse Barish - Oral History

    In this oral history, musician and songwriter Jesse Barish recounts his life in music and describes Mill Valley during the 1970s. Born in 1945, Jesse grew up in Brooklyn, the Catskill Mountains, and Miami. After graduating from high school in 1963, Jesse moved out to California, originally touching down in Los Angeles before moving up to San Francisco and settling in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. Jesse moved over to Marin in the 1970s, and he ...

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    Jesse Barish, photo by Debra Schwartz
  2. Oral History of Rita Abrams - Oral History

    Musician and teacher Rita Abrams was born in 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from the University of Michigan and did graduate work in Special Education at Boston University. In 1969, seeking a change of climate and scenery, Rita left the East Coast for the Bay Area and found a job as a kindergarten teacher at Mill Valley's Strawberry Point School. Inspired by her newfound home, Rita describes how she sat on a bench in the downtown plaza on...

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    Rita Abrams, photo by Gene Cohn

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