5/10/2023 0 Comments Jack london alcoholic![]() "It seemed the family moved so many times when he was a child, people don't keep track of all of the residences," Hayes says. He will talk about London's life in Northern California at the conference tomorrow, as he's done for the past nine gatherings. ![]() Greg Hayes, a London scholar and resident ranger at the Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen, is definitely aware of London's Peninsula connections. Still, no one associates London with San Mateo County, Jackson says, because " Monterey (and Sonoma) do a much better job of PR." TOASTING THE COAST Unfortunately you can't tell where he moored his boat, because the shoreline has changed so much with all the landfill," says Jackson, a Redwood City resident. "He lived here in San Mateo and sailed his boat out of here. ![]() Ten years ago, the College of Notre Dame was the site of the first Jack London Writers' Conference, an annual event put on by the Peninsula branch. After he gained international renown, London offered his name to the club in the hope of encouraging young writers. London created the California Writers' Club with the poet and close friend George Sterling, short story writer Herman Whitaker and "English civil libertarian" Austin Lewis, according to Mariann Jackson, president of the Peninsula branch of the club. ![]()
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