Sunday, May 6, 2018 1:00 – 3:00 p. m.
MVHA SPRING EVENT & MEETING: The PEOPLING OF SILICON VALLEY
A Special TAlk By
Tim Stanley
Author Of The Books: Last of the PRUNE PICKERS & The Peopling of Silicon Valley
Sunday, May 6, 2018 1:00 – 3:00 p. m.
AT THE HISTORIC Adobe Building 157 Moffett Boulevard, Mountain View CA
ABOUT THE EVENT
The MVHA is excited to welcome back author Tim Stanley to share a slideshow lecture on his new book! The Peopling of Silicon Valley, 1940 to the Present Day: An Oral History puts a human face on the Valley. It does not pretend to be a history of the entire Valley during this period or of the technology industries for which the place is now famous. This is a personal history of a cross section of the people who have settled here and of the place they call home with just enough of the technology story to make it interesting.
The book encompasses the five major migrations to the Valley since World War II: the GIs, Lockheed, the chip makers, the minicomputer folks, and the software and web developers. Each is, if not the dominant group, at least a group representative of a particular period that lasted fifteen years or more. Each wave of people brought with it both increased economic prosperity and social change. This is their story, told as much as possible in their own words.
ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER, TIM STANLEY
Tim Stanley grew up in the Santa Clara Valley of California before it was known as Silicon Valley. His first jobs were cutting apricots and picking prunes, which is what kids did here before they started writing code at age 12. Tim spent five summers working on a local fruit farm and the lessons learned there left a lasting impression on him. After raising two children with his wife Deborah and running a construction business for more than thirty years, Tim has been devoting most of his time to writing. His latest book is titled The Peopling of Silicon Valley, 1940 to the Present Day: An Oral History. It is a sequel to his popular local history titled The Last of the Prune Pickers: A Pre- Silicon Valley Story. Tim and his wife live in Irvine, California.
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