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Friday, Oct. 3: Ocean View anniversary event #1. 7 p.m. at Finn Hall on Tenth Street, north of Hearst. Dr. Kent Lightfoot, anthropologist, and publisher and author Malcolm Margolin, speaking about the natural character and native American life and culture of the area that became Berkeley. $10 at door, $45 for the series. 

Friday, Oct. 10: Ocean View anniversary event #2. 7:30 p.m. at Spenger’s Fish Grotto, the ballroom. Landscape ecologist Robin Grossinger of the San Francisco Estuary Instate and Carole Schemmerling-Selz, talking about Berkeley’s creeks and early natural landscape. $10 at door, $45 for the series. 

Saturday, Oct. 11: BHS walking tour, “Gilman Street Industrial Area”, led by several guides, including Berkeley’s Parks Director Lisa Caronna. 10-12. $10 (discount for members). 

Sunday, Oct. 12, 3-5 p.m.: “Afternoon Tea” at the Berkeley History Center, celebrating Berkeley’s women’s club movement. Talk and slide show by Carol O’Hare, editor of “Jailed for Freedom”, on the movement to bring women the vote. Free, but call (510) 528-3284 for reservations.  

Thursday, Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m.: Ocean View anniversary event #3. Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont. Program by naturalist Beverly Ortiz on Ohlone Indian culture, in a park setting similar to the original character of the wetlands that once lined Berkeley’s shore. $10 at door, $45 for the series. 

Friday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.: “Evening on Piedmont Avenue” at the historic Thorsen House, 2307 Piedmont Avenue (at Bancroft). $35 per 

person, including reception and film documentary on the architects. Make reservations with BAHA. Contact information below. 

Saturday, Oct. 18, 10-12 p.m.: BHS walking tour, “Boundary Walk”, along the northern edge of Berkeley, led by Paul Grunland. $10 (discount for members). 

Saturday, Oct. 25, 10-12 noon: Ocean View anniversary event #4. Meet at Spenger’s Parking Lot, Fourth and Hearst. Walking tour of old Ocean View’s architecture, history, and shellmound site, led by west Berkeley activist and historian Stephanie Manning. $10 for tour, $45 for the series. 

Saturday, Oct. 25, 10-12 noon: “Paths of Northernmost Berkeley”, sponsored by the Berkeley Pathwanderer’s Association. Meet at Ensenada and Portland Avenues. For more details, call Marilyn Siegel 549-2906 & Mardi Mertens 849-1142, or visit the BPWA website at www.berkeleypaths.org. Walk is free. 

Thursday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.: Ocean View anniversary event #5. Church of the Good Shepherd, Ninth and Hearst. Talk by Barbara Gates, Ocean View resident and author of “Already Home”, a west Berkeley memoir. Remarks by Stephanie Manning and by the historian of the Church, which is one of Berkeley’s oldest houses of worship and was recently restored. $10 at door, $45 for series.  

Saturday, Nov. 1. 10-12 noon: BHS Bonus Tour. “Changing Face of Downtown Berkeley”, tour of housing developments by Panoramic Interests (Free to those who have attended 3 other BHS tours in the Fall series.) 

Saturday, Nov. 1: BHS bonus tour, “Behind the Scenes at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum and the Bancroft Library”. SOLD OUT. 

Thursday, Nov. 6. 7:30 p.m.: Ocean View anniversary event #6. Program on the ethnic migrations that have shaped West Berkeley since the late 19th century. Location and speakers to be announced. $10 at door, $45 for series. 

Thursday, Nov. 13: Ocean View anniversary event #7. History of San Francisco Bay, by retired U.S. Geological Service engineer and historian Ken LaJoie. Time and location to be announced. $10 at door. $45 for series. 

Thursday, Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m.: Ocean View anniversary event #8. Location to be announced. Panel discussion of the 1970s neighborhood struggle to save Ocean View from becoming an industrial park, and the subsequent changes in the neighborhood. Several panelists. $10.00 at door, $45 for series. 

For further details and reservations for the BHS (Berkeley Historical Society) events noted above, go to www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/histsoc/ or call BHS at 848-0181, or visit the Berkeley History Center, 1931 Center St., between 1-4 p.m., Thursday-Saturday. Reservations required for tours. 

For details on Professor Wollenberg’s “Berkeley: A City in History” Vista College course, go to the Vista College Web site, www.vistacollege.edu/ and follow the links to “Classes,” “Class Schedules-Vista,” “History,” and “Berkeley,” or visit the Berkeley Public Library History Room online at www.infopeople.org/bpl/system/histrm.html where the on-line class text is located. 

For Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association events, call the BAHA office at 841-2242. 

For events in the special Ocean View lecture series, order tickets by mail from BAHA, P.O. Box 1137, Berkeley, Ca. 94701. Tickets $10 at door, $45 for series of eight events. For further information on the series, call Stephanie Manning at (510) 841-8562, or e-mail bahaworks@yahoo.com.