Welcome new subscribers! On Monday afternoons we do several small features, including Marin History. On Wednesday morning, by the time you wake up, you’ll have the events and activities email.
The San Rafael Dinner Club Pictures
Our first Marin Buzz Dinner Club meetup was a success! (If this is the first you’re hearing about it, see this announcement video about how you get assigned a table with 5 strangers. We also did a recap video with quotes from attendees and feedback.)
Thank you Niki for the photos. Since it was the first dinner club, we hired a pro to visit all the restaurants and take quality photos of the event. They turned out great and I loved seeing everyone having fun! Niki Scioli Photography: nikiscioli.com, @nikiscioli3
Save the date for the next dinner club: Tuesday, 2/10 in Mill Valley. We’ll let you know when sign-ups are open.
San Francisco has such a rich history, yet so many of the major story lines actually happen in Marin.
The Beat Generation was coined by Jack Kerouac in the 1940s to describe his group of author friends in New York City. They were “beaten down” by growing up in the Great Depression, while at the same time associating with the “beat” of jazz music they enjoyed.
They made it out to San Francisco by the 1950s and are largely associated with North Beach. Here’s Grant and Green at the time:
Here’s where Marin enters the picture.
In 1956, in a tiny and primitive cabin behind 370 Montford Avenue, Mill Valley (Homestead Valley) lived Gary Snyder. He was a poet and student of Zen Buddhism who was good friends with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg (known for the poem Howl), and the other big Beat Generation names.
He called this shack “Marin-An”, using a Japanese suffix often “used to name tea houses, small temples, or the retreats of recluses and monks.” Kerouac moved in during the spring of 1956 and they’d frequently host other friends as well. The setting is captured in Kerouac’s novel The Dharma Bums about simplicity and Zen Buddhism.
This tiny Mill Valley cabin was key in transforming a counterculture from smoky, hard-drinking, jazz clubs to something entirely different. Sun, nature, and the principles of peace in Buddhism.
An influential group of friends transformed right here in Marin and bridged the gap to the hippies in the 1960s. In fact, some beatniks like Ginsberg and Neal Cassady would continue to be major figures in the hippie counterculture as well.
ps. It’s kind of crazy reading things like “Following an arrest in 1958 for offering to share a small amount of marijuana with an undercover agent at a San Francisco nightclub, Cassady served a two-year sentence at California's San Quentin State Prison.“
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$1.25M Houseboat in Sausalito
We have a houseboat!
This section is all about showing you unique Marin properties. This isn’t a time to be practical. Something to dream on. Well what’s more of a dream than a houseboat?
Well, somehow they fit 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a roof deck in for $1.25M, so maybe this one is more practical than some?
It just hit Zillow yesterday and you are one of the first to know.
Check it out:
Penelope Pitstop
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