My Great Grandfather

 The other day I was looking through a chest full of memorabilia and found this framed picture that my grandparents on my mother's side had in their home.  It was of my Great Grandfather George T. Clark, one of the most famous librarians in the State of California.  Besides being a library director at Stanford University and the San Francisco Public Library, he was the author of an extensive biography of Leland Stanford.  He dedicated the book to my mother Ann Williams.  I think his literary genes were passed on to my daughter, Andria Williams, a talented author in her own right.

George T. Clark at work at the Cecil H. Green Library, the main Stanford University Libray that opened in 1919 after the smaller original library was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.  This library was severely damaged in the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989, a quake I felt in Napa.  It was rebuilt at a cost of many millions of dollars.