“Looking back 50 years to Sonoma County’s Running Fence” by Jennifer Bethke

What do you know about Sonoma County’s Running Fence, the controversial art installation project that traversed 26 miles of Sonoma and Marin county open lands in 1976? Maybe you were there, or maybe you were one of the hundreds of volunteers. But, more likely, you probably only know a few small parts of the fading history of the project, now 50 years in the past.

At Sebastopol Rotary’s Oct. 30 meeting, Sonoma County Museum’s art curator, Jennifer Bethke will share the history of the Christo Running Fence, which is now the subject of a museum show that ends in early November.

Bethke, has a PhD in art history from UC Berkeley and has worked on many art and history research projects in places as far apart as Alaska and Rome Italy.

The Oct. 30 program promises to be one not to miss.