Related Records

1. 5 Dollar Throckmorton - Archives

   Song with lyrics written by Julie Herrera's third-grade class at Park School, music by Jerome Rossen, and arranged by music teacher Lori Adessa. The song was the result of a Kiddo mini-grant project to write three pieces of music about Mill Valley History. This song is about the Rancho period and mentions Samuel Throckmorton, John Reed and William Richardson. A recording of the song, performed by Jerome Rossen, and lyric sheet are attached.

   Record Type: Archive

   
2. Oral History of David Freiberg - Oral History

   In this oral history, David Freiberg, a key figure in the Bay Area music scene from the 1960s onward, recounts his life, career, friends, and family. Born in Boston in 1938 and raised in Cincinnati, David moved out to California in 1959 where he first took up playing the guitar. Touching down in Oakland, he moved to San Francisco in the early 1960s and then over to Mill Valley a few years later. David gives a detailed account of his time playing ...

   Record Type: Archive

   
3. Oral History of Marty Balin - Oral History

   In this oral history, musician and songwriter Marty Balin shares stories from his life at the center of the rock music scene and hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s. Born in 1942, Marty grew up in both San Francisco and Richmond. He describes himself as having been a very musical child, born with "a song in [his] heart." Marty began his musical career in the San Francisco folk scene. When the clubs he was playing at in the early 1960s did not s...

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4. 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...

   Record Type: Archive

   
5. Tamalpais High School Song - Pamphlet Files

   Tamalpais High School Song sheet, words and music

   Record Type: Archive

   
6. The Crookedest Railroad - Archives

   Song with lyrics written by Joe Martini's third-grade class at Park School, music by Jerome Rossen, and arranged by music teacher Lori Adessa. The song was the result of a Kiddo mini-grant project to write three pieces of music about Mill Valley History. This song gives a brief history of the railroad and gravity cars in Mill Valley.

   Record Type: Archive