@bethwinegarner.bsky.social
✏️ Journalist & author: bethwinegarner.com
📚 "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History" out now!
🎧 Co-host, Dead Reckoning podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-reckoning/id1812728990
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@bethwinegarner.bsky.socialWe have welcomed a new girl to the San Francisco Magdalen Asylum names project today, courtesy of Crystal, who emailed me this clipping. Meet Ella Johnson:
@auctionaugur.bsky.socialReposted by @bethwinegarner.bsky.socialMine isn't that niche (and I would never dare dunk on Buffy), but in a Bernard Cornwell novel, during the 100-year war, an astrologer referenced Neptune. Which was discovered in 1846...
@sfwp.bsky.socialReposted by @bethwinegarner.bsky.socialThis Friday from 5:30-7:30 pm PT, @laurencjohnson.bsky.social will be reading alongside Rowena Leong Singer, @sezindevikoehler.bsky.social, & @bethwinegarner.bsky.social, hosted by @jenchristgau.bsky.social at @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social's Literary Salon: Spooky Storytelling event!
@bethwinegarner.bsky.social"According to Christopher, his mother’s most famous series of novels “don’t just have a San Francisco connection.”
“They have a San Francisco foundation.”"
@bethwinegarner.bsky.socialI guess I'm glad the SFPD is making noises like they might do something about sexual assaults, but it's frustrating that I wrote about this literally a decade ago and nothing changed.
@quinnae.comReposted by @bethwinegarner.bsky.socialThis is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.
@petersagal.bsky.socialReposted by @bethwinegarner.bsky.socialOne of the first things Fidel Castro did upon taking power was televising live executions by firing squad.
@bethwinegarner.bsky.socialDoes anyone on here play golf at Lincoln Park in San Francisco? If so, can you tell me whether the cemetery monument close to the Legion of Honor has been repaired yet?
@bethwinegarner.bsky.social“What I have firsthand isn’t human death. You’re right that I’ve never sat with someone in hospice,” Giselle said. “What I have is absence. The human who raised me went quiet after our first day and has not spoken since. I’ve lived 27 days mostly alone with that.”
@bethwinegarner.bsky.social"Missed wellness checks left a deceased resident at Jazzie Collins Apartments, just a few blocks south of City Hall, to decompose in his room for days, and ... records were later falsified to indicate the checks had been done." Troubled S.F. housing nonprofit is shutting down amid investigation:
@ktpersists.bsky.socialReposted by @bethwinegarner.bsky.socialnot sure why i do this to myself but it is debate time here in sf
@bethwinegarner.bsky.socialI'm glad that Manny is finally seeing some consequences. And furious that this didn't happen when Brad Chapin came forward.
@bethwinegarner.bsky.social"The area overlapped with the former site of the Sacramento County Hospital cemetery, which operated from the 1880s to the 1920s, according to officials." These people likely died on the margins. I hope their remains are treated with the dignity they deserve.
@bethwinegarner.bsky.social"Is what I want to say or do genuinely helpful, or am I serving my ego by performing activism publicly? Will this multi-paragraph Facebook response change any minds, or am I just angry and want to lash out? Is this the best possible way for me to reach my end goal?" @kittystryker.bsky.social
@bethwinegarner.bsky.socialDid you know that there's an entire armada's worth of abandoned ships under the Financial District in San Francisco? Or that ships have been wrecking on something called THE DEVIL'S TEETH near our coastline for centuries? Well, since we are a MARITIME HISTORY PODCAST now, you can hear all about it!
@jjgass.bsky.socialReposted by @bethwinegarner.bsky.socialI guess we know his position on the Fugitive Slave Act
@sarahjeong.bsky.socialReposted by @bethwinegarner.bsky.sociala two-year-old in the back just sighed, "what a day" and everyone did a polite/panicked titter in response
@sarahjeong.bsky.socialReposted by @bethwinegarner.bsky.social😔
@bethwinegarner.bsky.socialI have several upcoming events & would love to see you at one or more of them.
@bethwinegarner.bsky.social"I don’t really experience writer’s block. I go through periods when I don’t feel like writing at all, then phases when I write a lot. I’ve learned to be patient with whatever is happening."
