Charles Fracchia will host the inaugural Authors' Forum at the Old Mint. Guests will have the opportunity to meet and chat with the following four featured authors:

* Frances Dinkelspiel, author of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California;

* Kevin Mullen, author of Chinatown Squad: Policing the Dragon From the Gold Rush to the 21st Century;

* Jeanne Farr McDonnell, author of Juana Briones of Nineteenth-Century California;

* Rand Richards, author of Mud, Blood, and Gold: San Francisco in 1849.

In addition, Charles Fracchia's When the Water Came Up to Montgomery Street: San Francisco During the Gold Rush will be available for purchase.

Admission is free for SFMHS members and $5 for non-members. Please call (415) 537-1105 ext. 100 or send an email to rsvp@sfhistory.org to let us know that you're coming.