Then & Now: Livermore Stories is a local history lecture series co-presented by the Livermore Heritage Guild and the Livermore Public Library. City Historian Alan Frank will give a presentation entitled “Livermore: Commercial Center,” on Tuesday, April 29 at 7 p.m. in the Storytime Room of the Civic Center Library, 1188 S. Livermore Ave. Registration is not required to attend this free program for adults.

Alan will discuss how Livermore remained a small town but was the commercial center of the valley. He is the author of the forthcoming book Frontier to City: Livermore, California. Alan Frank is an historian with the Livermore Heritage Guild. He was the historic consultant to the City of Livermore for the rescue and refurbishment of the 1892 Central Pacific Railroad Depot. He retired as historian and curator of the Niles Canyon Railway, where he was responsible for placing that segment of the original Transcontinental Railroad on the National Register of Historic Places. Since retirement as a physicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he served as a musician and president of the Livermore-Amador Symphony.