Hetch Hetchy Dam History & The Irish | SF

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2020 Irish-American Crossroads Festival

The Irish-American Crossroads Festival is a literary, musical, and cultural event that takes place every year in San Francisco during the month of March.

It is a celebrated annual festival inviting the public to come together around inspired, creative, and relevant events regarding Irish and Irish-American history and culture.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Hetch Hetchy Dam History | 2020 Irish-American Crossroads Festival

Crossroads is proud to partner with the California Historical Society to present this roundtable discussion about Irish civil engineer Michael O’Shaughnessy and the building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam,  facilitated by Elizabeth Creely, featuring Robert Cherny, Joshua Milstein and Catherine Powell.

Michael O’Shaughnessy was an Irish civil engineer who became city engineer for the city of San Francisco during the first part of the twentieth century and developed the Hetch Hetchy water system. 2014 marks the 80th anniversary of the arrival of water from Hetch Hetchy in San Francisco.

Speakers include:

Robert Cherny, professor emeritus at San Francisco State University, specializes in American political history from the Civil War to World War II and in the history of California. He is the author of three books on U.S. politics, 1865-1925, and of more than thirty published essays in journals and anthologies, most of which deal with the history of politics and labor in California and the West.

Joshua Milstein has been working as a deputy City attorney and involved with water matters for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission since 1985.

Catherine Powell is the Director of the Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University. Catherine is co-chair of the Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists, coordinator of the Bay Area Labor History Workshop and a board member of the Fund for Labor Culture and History.

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