Hearst's San Simeon: The Gardens and The Land June 9, 2010

Victoria Kastner, author and historian, discusses her new book, "Hearst’s San Simeon: The Gardens and The Land" (Abrams, May 2009)

This is the first event of the Presidio Garden Lecture Series. Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, was more than just a country house, and many of its finest features were outside, not inside. In Hearst's San Simeon: The Gardens and the Land, the castle's official historian Victoria Kastner takes readers on a time-traveling tour of the estate, from the beginning of its construction to the present.

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