Monthly Archives: February 2011

a wildlife photographer shares twilight adventure in golden gate park

Posted on February 27, 2011 by fromthethicket

Janet Kessler took this delightful photograph of a raccoon in Golden Gate Park for an exhibit at the main San Francisco library last summer.  The following is her description of capturing these elusive animals on film  .  .  . “I … Continue reading →

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riding the blades: golden gate park’s dutch windmill

Posted on February 25, 2011 by fromthethicket

Pranks and stunts, close calls and tragedies have become part of the lore of Golden Gate Park over the years!  Here’s a report of some incidents involving the Dutch Windmill! (courtesy of Woody LaBounty; posted in The Ocean Beach Bulletin) … Continue reading →

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golden gate park after dark?

Posted on February 18, 2011 by fromthethicket

golden gate park at night (by photographer Chris MacArthur, SF Weekly) Marie Winn’s delightful book,  Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife (New York:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  2008) begins: “The first time I walked through … Continue reading →

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magnolia walk: precocious blossoms harbingers of spring

Posted on February 14, 2011 by fromthethicket

Take a magnolia walk in the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park this month!  Yesterday afternoon, on a docent-led tour we learned many interesting facts about the magnolias in this world-renowned collection, recently listed as the 4th best … Continue reading →

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flashback to 1971: 156,000 march to protest the vietnam war

Posted on February 8, 2011 by fromthethicket

This news flashback is from http://richmondsfblog.com/ “In this month’s issue of The Richmond Review newspaper, the above photo was featured, which shows thousands of citizens .  .  . in protest against the Vietnam War  .  .  . The photos were … Continue reading →

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bowling on the green with shakespeare and friends

Posted on February 6, 2011 by fromthethicket

  “To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause.  .  .” In this passage from Hamlet’s famous … Continue reading →

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the bicycle girl: lights, bells and whistles

Posted on February 4, 2011 by fromthethicket

This illustration shows the bicycle path from Prospect Park, Brooklyn, to Coney Island in 1896.  Bicycling had become such a popular sport nationwide by the end of the century that cities were hard pressed to control the traffic.  Many municipalities … Continue reading →

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a spicy spin through the park?

Posted on February 1, 2011 by fromthethicket

In My Park Book, published in 1898, Annie Nathan Meyer gleefully recorded the joys of spinning through Central Park, New York on her bicycle in the latter part of the nineteenth century.  Among the pioneers of women’s cycling, she learned to ride in … Continue reading →

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