Landmark
Russian Hill
Russian Hill, San Francisco, CA, USA
Hillside neighborhood of steep switchback streets, Victorian houses and sweeping bay views.
This guide to Russian Hill in San Francisco centers on the poet Ina Coolbrith, who hosted a literary salon here for decades, welcoming Mark Twain and a young library patron named Jack London who later called her his literary mother. It follows her to April 18, 1906, watching from this hill as fire closed in on her Taylor Street home and everything inside it. Listen for the friends who rallied around her afterward, Twain among them.
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