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Stevenson in California

Thursday, Aug. 20, 4 p.m. Featuring Alex Lyman, executive director of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum. Stevenson lived in California for less than a year, spending time on the Monterey Peninsula, in San Francisco and the Napa Valley. Yet the area directly influenced his writing and had a profound effect on the writer Stevenson would become.

Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, photographed by Henry Walter Barnett

A St. Helena Historical Society Production. At the Heritage Center Museum, 1255 Oak Ave., St. Helena.

Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, photographed by Henry Walter Barnett (public domain) Featured Event
Stevenson in California Thursday, August 20 · 4 p.m. · Heritage Center
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