Earthwise welcomes Dan Bern

In 1769 a Spanish soldier named Portola got lost between Monterey and Half Moon Bay. He noted a tall tree, “El Palo Alto”. A year later, he and his men, or people like him, came back. They cut down the tree, to cross the creek. A hundred or so years later, Leland Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, to escape protests in front of his Pacific Heights San Francisco mansion, bought —from Spanish people, not indigenous ones, but not Portola either—bought 8,000 acres, including a tree, near the creek. He said his purchase included “El Palo Alto” —that same big tree.

Then—skipping some detail— they built a church, and a university.

Dan Bern was born in the 1960s and started writing songs in the late 1980s.

Earthwise was founded by Mark Weiss of Palo Alto in 1994.

Dan Bern played in the rain at Lytton plaza March, 2023.

On October 8, Dan Bern will perform at Mitchell Park Community Center, built in 2014.

Host or Publisher Mark Weiss dba Earthwise