Events Calendar · January 2020
Marin History Museum's January Lecture featuring Lynn Downey at San Rafael Elks Lodge
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2020
Time: 7:00pm
Phone: 415-382-1182
Marin History Museum invites you the first of their 2020 speaker series events featuring a lecture by Lynn Downey on her novel, Arequipa Sanatorium, Life in California's Lung Resort for Women.
About Arequipa Sanatorium: As San Francisco recovered from the 1906 earthquake and fire, dust and ash filled the city's factories, stores, and classrooms. Dr. Philip King Brown noticed rising tuberculosis rates among the women who worked there, and he knew there were few places where they could get affordable treatment. In 1911, with the help of society women and his wife, Helen, a protege of philanthropist Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Brown opened the Arequipa Sanatorium in Marin County. Together, Brown and his all-female staff gave new life to hundreds of woking-class women suffering from tuberculosis in the early 20th-century California.
Based on sanatorium records Downey helped to preserve and interviews she conducted with former patients and others associated with Arequipa, she tells a vivid story of the sanatorium and its cure that Brown and his talented team of Progressive women made possible for hundreds of working-class patients.
Suggested donation: $10/free entry for Elks with ID card
Please RSVP to info@marinhistory.org or call 415-382-1182.
Additional Location or Other Information
San Rafael Elks Lodge is located at 1312 Mission Avenue (at C Street), San Rafael, CA 94901. Parking is in the rear of the mansion, look for the hidden driveway and follow one-way signs.