With Taylor Nairn

Welcome to Behind the Bar where host Ginger Murray delves into the best and the worst stories of being on the job told by those people who serve the drinks and the celebration, the lessened loneliness and the moments in between.
The world comes to us and we want to share a little bit of our world with you.

In this episode: The Egg Wars, Occupy, Oceanic Upwelling, Common Murres, the Rite Spot, Goddamn Great Science and Ghosts.

Taylor is a fighter. A fighter of a particular kind. She fights for the caring of people and marine animals. She also unusually, for a bartender, wakes up early to do conservation work but still enjoys the delights of being a bartender. From night to day she brings what is important.
Also, the reason she left us for awhile was because she had breast cancer which is what Annie Southworth - our great Rite Spot reason why we are all there - died of.
Taylor thankfully recovered but has many stories to tell about the difficulties of what all that means. 
And she is happy to talk about it.
In the meantime, we are all so delighted that she survived and is thriving. And fighting.
A song that she loves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogypBUCb7DA

The Farallon Islands and the Egg Wars.
Taylor's co-researcher wrote a really great book about it.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/15/487644637/the-gold-hungry-forty-niners-also-plundered-something-else-eggs

The Great Annie Southworth: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13826724/remembering-annie-southworth-booster-for-san-franciscos-rock-scene


Closing Song is by the  wonderful Lee Vilenski Trio ~ Destination Love.
https://www.leevilensky.com/


Ginger Murray has been a bartender since 1994, working in New York, London, Glasgow, Spain and San Francisco. She lives in Oakland tending lemon trees and enjoying the streets. Eventually - she will be back at the Rite Spot.