calm and at the end of prohibition, and now you have big industrial and smaller features and i think there is a place for master growers have humboldt and in the economy in a way it is kind of like the last small farming community in america where everybody can make a pretty reasonable living farming and once that is the not too the larger market. >> california writers club

formed in 1909 with the educated drivers at all levels in both the craft of writing and the marketing of their work. we've been doing that for 100 years. california writers club currently has 21 branches throughout this day, nearly two dozen members and it all started in oakland. if you're a writer coming it to be connected with the writing group in the bay area has quite a number of them. what i like about the california writers club is the rich history, connection to oakland and the fact it's been around for 100 years. i loved the story of the founders. jack london where we are now was born in 1870s pics. his mentor was california first poet laureate in oakland's first library and peered she met with jack and joaquin miller who brought the land up in the hills with the vision of making it a writer's retreat and dispels the

high. they connected with other legendary writers from the turn of the 19th century to the early 1900s. jack is an inspiration and because he's so well known, jack was born and disco. he was nursed by a apprentice, a black woman. they lived in poverty and jack hung out in this area. he was known down here in his younger years. finland had $300 in a sale that if your up-and-down the day into the delta. he absorbs the story of the workers, sailors and later turned those stories into over 50 novels. the story of why it does take a village to raise a child. jack is fitting that one of those tables at age 10 studying

out of the dictionary. johnny heim elementary jack and encouraged him to read and to learn. as i understand it, johnny about him this money to go to school. we come down here for his birthday on january 12. the owner typically has cut cakes. we will set out and write. we have meetings in the area where we have workshops. the writing process is a creative process and while it's internal, it draws on so much insight but also what's going on in their world. i walk in there and i just feel good. i feel creative. i feel connected to something that's been around a long time and will go forward. i think that is part of the energy of oakland. right now we have a renaissance in the literary scene.

there is the book festival and the bay area book festival and it's been around a couple years. these are named after and transferred containers. it's all about writing. whether it's on a blog on the computer, on the printed page. the energy of the people. there is a love of writing, a love of wanting to be together obviously part of it because with the whole bay area growing, it is hard to get different places. there's something about the energy of jack london square where we are today that is just inspiring.