San Francisco Timecapsule: 05.04.09
May 04 2009
14 mins
THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1854: A future poet's boyhood outing
Spring 1854
Charles Warren Stoddard
In 1854, the down-on-their-luck Stoddard family set off from New York City to try their luck in that brand new metropolis of the West: San Francisco.
Charles Warren Stoddard was just 11 years old, and San Francisco -- still in the throes of the Gold Rush, a vital, chaotic, co