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Petaluma Regional Library
The Petaluma Regional Library serves the Petaluma and South County community.
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- Children's & Family Programs
- Programs for Adults/Teens
- Book discussions
- Book Sales
- Friends of the Library / Spring Art Show
- Library Advisory Board
- Petaluma History Room
Yoshimatsu Nakata. Photo courtesy of the Jack London
Collection, Sonoma State University Library
Local History: Life with Jack and Charmian London
Walter H. Roeder reads from his paper
“The Manuscript in the Attic: the Londons, Nakata and Barry Stevens”
Saturday, September 6 at 2 p.m.
Helen Putnam Community Room
From 1907 to 1915, Jack London and his wife Charmian employed Yoshimatsu Nakata as a valet. In the 1930s Barry Stevens, a psychologist and author, met Nakata in Hawaii where he was practicing dentistry. She worked with him to document his recollections of life with the Londons.
Walter Roeder is a volunteer in the Petaluma History Room and a volunteer SSU archivist.
About the Jack London Collection at Sonoma State University Library
Made in Petaluma: Quilts by Jeanette Rose Ferrick
Showing now through Labor Day
Jeanette Rose Ferrick, a resident of Petaluma for 45 years, made 31 quilts in her lifetime. On display in the Petaluma Library are sixteen of Jeanette Ferrick’s quilts, courtesy of her daughter, Marilyn Ferrick.
Check the
Petaluma Library Calendar for more upcoming events