< Portal:San Francisco Bay Area < Did you know

  ... that Ina Coolbrith (pictured), the first woman granted honorary membership in the Bohemian Club, was also the first California Poet Laureate?
  ... that the California-based donut shop Psycho Donuts has generated controversy for its mental health-themed products, such as the "Manic Malt" and "Bipolar"?
  ... that Horace Barker was awarded the National Medal of Science for discovering the coenzyme of vitamin B12, which Barker had isolated from mud taken from San Francisco Bay?
  ... that England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists? (painting of work presented at the Bohemian Grove pictured)
  ... that the Cremation of Care ceremony (pictured) is performed on the first night of the Bohemian Club's annual summer encampment at the Bohemian Grove?

July 2009

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