![]() ![]() Margolin’s own The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey-Bay Area shed light on an important part of the state’s history. The success of that book launched a company that has significantly contributed to the understanding of California. He started Heyday in 1974 with the self-published The East Bay Out, a guide to the East Bay Regional Parks. ![]() Margolin has lived in Berkeley since 1970 when he moved from New York with his wife, Rina. In fact, he has so many ideas and notions that any casual meeting with the man with the trademark white beard is often the occasion for a torrent of ideas. But don’t think that means Margolin doesn’t have any opinions. When Berkeleyside approached Margolin about being featured in our “Snapshot” series, he was completely uninterested in answering our questions about himself (as you can see below) and effectively declined to do so. “Manifesting sacred power, a power larger than life, a savant. “Hierophantic,” was how the noted historian Kevin Starr described Malcolm Margolin, the publisher of the Berkeley-based Heyday Books, in a 2004 article in the San Francisco Chronicle. ![]()
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