This article was previously published in the Fall 2018 print edition of the Glen Park News. The year 2018 marks the 110th anniversary of the Glen Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. Established through the advocacy of Glen Park suffragists, the branch stands today as a testament to determined community activism and an […]
Glen Park History
A Nuthatch Family Makes A New Home
Richard Craib raised his family on Turquoise Way, his backyard abutting the upper reaches of Glen Canyon. This summer he oversaw a family of white-breasted nuthatches at the house he built and has lived in since 1962. Craib recently sat in his living room, which overlooks a mini-forest of pines, cypresses and redwoods. A barn […]
Do you know the name of Glen Park’s baseball diamond? Read this and you’ll never forget it.
Two Little League teams faced off on the Thelma Williams Baseball Diamond in Glen Canyon Park on a warm Saturday afternoon in April. The players were six years old, maybe seven. Parents watched from behind a backstop and along the base paths. A father, the pitcher, knelt halfway between home plate and the batter’s box. […]