“There it is, take it,” William Mulholland proclaimed the day the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened in 1913, an engineering marvel that delivers water from the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains all the way to the City of Angels.
Without that precious resource, Los Angeles would never have become the land that it is. Writer and historian Les Standiford tackles the larger-than-life story of Mulholland in “Water to the Angels,” as well as his six-year, $23 million project that continues to transform the city and the region.
Les Standiford will be at Vroman's Bookst0re on 4/22 at 7:00pm to discuss and sign "Water to the Angels." For more information, click here.
Guest:
Les Standiford, author of many fiction and nonfiction books, including his latest “Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles” (Ecco, 2015). He is also the director of the Florida International University Creative Writing Program