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DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, November 18 for a tour of\nEvergreen Ceme
 tery\, one of Los Angeles' oldest\ncemeteries.  This event is free but res
 ervations are\nrequired by calling 213-229-8890 or sending an e-mail\nto r
 svp@socalstudio.org\n\n"Evergreen Cemetery"\n\nTime: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.
 m.\nDate: Saturday\, November 18\, 2006\nLocation: 204 Evergreen Avenue\, 
 Los Angeles 90033\nMeeting Place: At the front agates off of Evergreen\nAv
 enue. Park around the cemetery. \n\nLed by Resident Storytellers\, Steve G
 oldstein and Joe\nWalker\, this tour explores one of Los Angeles' oldest\n
 cemeteries. Built in 1877\, Evergreen existing cemetery\nin the city of Lo
 s Angeles\; it is one of the city's\nlargest cemeteries\, with 300\,000 gr
 ave sites. City\npioneers like the Workmans\, Hollenecks\, and Van Nuys\nf
 amilies are buried here as well as lesser known but\nequally fascinating L
 os Angelenos. The cemetery also\nhas a special section called the Garden o
 f the Pines\,\nwhich memorializes Issei pioneers of Los Angeles. 19\nth ce
 ntury midwife Biddy Mason\, a slave who earned her\nfreedom through the Ca
 lifornia courts\, is also buried\nhere. \n\nSteve Goldstein was born in Bo
 ston\, Massachusetts\,\nwhere he developed his love of cemeteries at a ver
 y\nearly age. Moving to Southern California at the age of\n18\, he continu
 ed and studying and began his vast\ncollection of photographs of the grave
 s of what he\ncalls "The Famous\, the Infamous\, and the Just Plain\nDead"
  that make up his as-yet unpublished book\,\n"Beneath Los Angeles." The co
 llection has become a\nfavorite website for many over the past eight years
  at\nwww.BeneathLosAngeles.com and has led to Mr. Goldstein\nbeing frequen
 tly interviewed\, including the Los\nAngeles Times\, the Orange County Reg
 ister\, KABC AM\nRadio\, NPR and many other media venues.\n\nJoe Walker is
  a Crime Analyst with the Los Angeles\nCounty Sheriff's Department and has
  been with the\ndepartment since 1986. In that capacity\, he has worked\nn
 umerous patrol stations and special unit assignments\,\nincluding Robbery 
 and Homicide. In 1995-1996\, he\nassisted best selling author James Ellroy
 \, (L.A.\nConfidential\, Black Dahlia). His most recent work was\nas a con
 tributing writer to the five volume series\,\n"Famous American Crimes and 
 Trials" published in\nDecember\, 2004 by Greenwood Publishers. Walker wrot
 e\nabout the 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murders in Los Angeles\nand the subseque
 nt "Zoot Suit." Most recently\, he is\nassisting the National Center for M
 issing and\nExploited Children in the 1957 case of Tommy Bowman. \n\n\nSha
 ron Sekhon\nDirector\nthe Studio for Southern California History\n\n525 Al
 pine Street\, Suite 103\nLos Angeles\, CA 90012\n213-229-8890\n<a href="ht
 tp://www.socalstudio.org">http://www.socalstudio.org</a>\n\n"The real voya
 ge of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in\nhaving new 
 eyes."  --Marcel Proust\n\n
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SUMMARY:Tour of Evergreen Cemetery\, Los Angeles\, CA
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