Living New Deal Helps Unveil History App in SF

The Living New Deal was well represented at the July 31st public launch of “Let’s Get Lost”,  a new smartphone app created by public broadcaster KQED-FM in San Francisco in partnership with the Living New Deal and California Historical Society (and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities).  The new application allows users to identify and hear experts talk about historic sites around the city, and the first sites covered are the New Deal murals at Coit Tower, Rincon Annex (a former Post Office), and City College of San Francisco.  Gray Brechin and Harvey Smith are featured experts on the app, and they reprised some of their knowledge  with a tour of the magnificent Rincon Annex murals by Anton Refregier (the last murals in the United States painted under the auspices of the New Deal).  The event attracted over a hundred people, including Living New Deal advisory board members Jan Roosevelt Katten and John Roosevelt Boettiger.

To find the app “Let’s Get Lost” click here.

Richard A Walker is the director of the Living New Deal.

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