Field Notes: Kenny Alley, Holiday Architecture Book Fair, and Oakland’s Last Old Redwood

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/29/field-notes-kenny-alley-stairs-holiday-architecture-book-fair-and-oaklands-last-old-growth-redwood/This week: Where to find ladybugs in Oakland, Oakland’s “Old Survivor” redwood. Napa Valley holiday wine train, tea round-up, holiday architecture book sale, award-winning molé sauce, ancestral quilts, and Bruce Lee’s time on Bay Area streets. A home’s layered past SF Heritage is bringing together its annual Holiday Open House and big book sale at the Haas-Lilienthal House, where visitors can step into decorated parlors, sip something warm, and pose beside the family’s well-worn Christmas tree. Downstairs, the ballroom becomes a trove of architecture titles, city histories, and rare San Francisco directories — hundreds of bo