Dewey Livingston & Amanda Eichstaedt | Point Reyes and Tomales Bay: A History of the Land and Its People
Date: Sat, 7/19/2025
Time:4:00pm – 5:30pm
Place:
Russell Chatham
11101 Highway 1
Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
Local historian Dewey Livingston joins us for a conversation about his book, Point Reyes and Tomales Bay: A History of the Land and Its People. KWMR’s Amanda Eichstaedt will serve as interlocutor.
“Dewey [Livingston] is a historian by training, but also by calling. He has spent a lifetime uncovering, stitching together and sharing the stories of the communities that have settled on Tomales Bay over the past two centuries. He isn’t one to sit behind a desk; he’s boots-on-the-ground and D.I.Y., and his work is enlivened by his broad interests — in geography, in storytelling, in art and, first and foremost, in people. This book is both a culmination of decades of research and an honest look at the limits of his knowledge. He delivers it all with an easy, approachable style that will make readers feel as if they’ve climbed into his passenger seat for a driving tour around the bay.” — Tess Elliott, Point Reyes Light
This is a free event. No registration required.
About the book
Local historian Dewey Livingston’s long-awaited, definitive history of the Point Reyes peninsula and Tomales Bay.
As the first comprehensive history of the Point Reyes area, this book provides in deep detail the stories of Indigenous people, dairy ranchers, artists, and mostly, the common men, women, and children who have inhabited this unique place for centuries. The author has worked for most of his life to learn and teach about the history of West Marin and here brings his research alive with a captivating narrative, hundreds of photographs, and maps both old and new.
About the participants
Dewey Livingston is a historian, archivist, mapmaker and photographer who has worked in California and Marin County for five decades. He has written extensive histories of Marin, the California Channel Islands, Death Valley and other places in the West. Long associated with the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History in Inverness, Dewey has three grown children and lives with his wife, Kerry, in Inverness.
Amanda Eichstaedt is the Station Manager and Executive Director at KWMR, West Marin Community Radio. Amanda and Dewey have been talking about history on KWMR for the past eleven years on Swimming Upstream and now on The Lowdown. They have been discussing Dewey’s latest book, the topic of this event, for the past ten years. Amanda lives in Olema with her husband Ken and their dog Waylon.
Click here to order a copy of Point Reyes and Tomales Bay: A History of the Land and Its People.