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Saturday, March 7, 2026
11:00 am
Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture
Join us in the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 7 as Dick Evans and Hannah Hindley discuss their book, In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area. This beautiful book of curated images interspersed with text explores the neighborhoods of San Francisco and their avian residents. Together, Hindley and Evans provide a vibrant and rich story of the tenacity of birds in a densely settled urban area. This event is free to the public.
About the Authors
Dick Evans became interested in photography as a graduate student at Stanford University and continued his practice throughout a forty-seven-year career in the global metals industry that took him all over the world. San Francisco always remained home base, though, and he now lives in the city with his wife, Gretchen. Evans is the author or coauthor of the photography books San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition, The Mission, and San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Hannah Hindley is a wilderness guide and the recipient of the Thomas Wood Award in Journalism, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and the Barry Lopez Prize in Nonfiction. She graduated from Harvard with degrees in English and evolutionary biology; she holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of Arizona. Her environmental essays can be found in Bay Nature, The Sun, Hakai, and more. Hannah writes about small creatures, big landscapes, and the scientists who love them.
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