The Walnut Creek Library Foundation’s “Live! From the Library” series welcomes John McCormick at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, as he presents, “Chinese in Napa Valley: The Forgotten Community That Built Wine Country.”
“Chinese laborers were once the backbone of Napa Valley,” the library foundation said in a statement. “Throughout the late 1800s, they were the major labor force in the vineyards, quicksilver mines, hop farms, leather tanneries and laundries and carved out neighborhoods in towns throughout the Valley.
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