Events › Sarah Winchester's Atherton Story, 1903-1922

Join the Atherton Library and the Friends of Atherton Library to welcome author and historian Mary Jo Ignoffo discuss her biography on Sarah Winchester. The presentation will highlight the almost two decades that Sarah Winchester, the widow and heiress of Winchester Mystery House fame, lived in Atherton. You will learn about the various properties Winchester purchased and the people who made up her household.

Mary Jo Ignoffo is an historian who has written books and articles and curated historical museum exhibits. She holds degrees from Santa Clara University and San Jose State University and taught at De Anza College for ten years. She has been interviewed for documentary films and for podcasts airing in the U.S., Europe, and Japan about her biography of Sarah Winchester—Captive of the Labyrinth Sarah L. Winchester Heiress to the Rifle Fortune.

Registration is encouraged but not required.