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She had vivid memories from the years before and during World War II, when her mother, driving alone, took her and her brother on numerous cross-country journeys between naval bases to catch up with her father's frequent redeployments. She attended Pomona College after the war and then moved to San Francisco with some of her college classmates. After working in San Francisco for a few years, she married Bill Kortum in 1953. In the ensuing years Bill and Lucy became effective advocates for environmental protection on issues such as the battle to save Bodega Head from a nuclear power plant in the early 1960s and the prolonged effort (beginning in the late 1960s) to preserve access to the California coastline and to save it from overdevelopment. Beyond her activity as an environmentalist, she was independently known for her work in architectural preservation, both locally and throughout California. In 1990 she completed a thesis for a master's degree in history at Sonoma State University. Entitled \"Carnegie Library Development in California and the Architecture it Produced, 1899-1921,\" the thesis resulted in the addition of ten California Carnegie libraries to the National Register of Historic Places, and still sets the standard by which libraries achieve such designation. Her efforts also resulted in the addition to the National Register of the Petaluma Silk Mill (built in 1892 near the Lakeville Highway and what is now Sunset Park), saving this significant structure from demolition and leading most recently to its repurposed preservation as a hotel which has been in operation since 2018. She also maintained a close connection with Sonoma State University. In addition to earning a master's degree there she was one of the first employees of the SSU Nursing Department and worked there for several years as the program grew in stature. In addition, the Sonoma County Historical Society recognized her achievements in the field of historic preservation and research by awarding her the Jeanne Thurlow Miller Individual Award in 2005. The next year, she was named Petaluma's \"Good Egg,\" an acknowledgment of her volunteer work for the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum. Until recently, she served as a board member of the Petaluma Historical Society and Friends of the Petaluma Library."},{"label":"Find e-Books by This Author","value":"View <a href=\"https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents?adv_all=%22Kortum%2C%Lucy%22|AND&searchtypes=Full%20text|Metadata&filter_190=Sonoma%20County%20Local%20Author%20and%20Visual%20Artist%20Works&applyState=true\">e-books</a> by Lucy Kortum"},{"label":"Search Author or Book in Library Catalog","value":"Search for works by Lucy Kortum in the <a href=\"https://find.sonomalibrary.org/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=%22Kortum+Lucy%22&te=&rt=false%7C%7C%7CAuthor\" target=\"_blank\">library catalog</a>"},{"label":"Search Author in Open Library","value":"Search for works by Lucy Kortum in <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Kortum+Lucy\" target=\"_blank\">Open Library</a>"},{"label":"Search Author in WorldCat","value":"Search for Lucy Kortum's author profile in <a href=\"https://worldcat.org/identities/find?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:identity&rft.namelast=Kortum&rft.namefirst=Lucy rel=\">WorldCat Identities</a>"},{"label":"Date Added","value":"2025-10-07"},{"label":"Search SCL Digital Archives for this Author","value":"<a href=\"https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents?search=%22Kortum,%22Lucy&searchtypes=Metadata|Full%20text&applyState=true\" target=\"_self\">Kortum, Lucy</a>"},{"label":"Filename","value":"lucy_kortum.jpg"},{"label":"Digital Archives Area Group(s)","value":["Local Arts"]},{"label":"Title","value":"Lucy Kortum"},{"label":"Item Type","value":["text"]},{"label":"Item Format or Genre","value":["photographs","portraits","bibliographies","biography files"]},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Country","value":["United States"]},{"label":"State or Province","value":["California"]},{"label":"California County","value":["Sonoma"]},{"label":"City or Town","value":["Petaluma"]},{"label":"Geographic Metadata Source","value":["GNIS"]},{"label":"Street Address","value":"Petaluma, California"},{"label":"Latitude","value":"38.247385"},{"label":"Longitude","value":"-122.621969"},{"label":"Geocoding Status","value":["Approximate geocoding"]},{"label":"Map Zoom Level","value":["13"]},{"label":"Maps/StreetView","value":"Find Lucy Kortum's Sonoma County connections in <a href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@38.247385,-122.621969,13z\" target=\"_blank\">Google Maps</a>"},{"label":"Digital Archives Identifier","value":"lucy_kortum"},{"label":"Digital Archives Collection Name(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Collection(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Author Name (Controlled)","value":["Lucy Kortum"]}],"description":"Lucy Kortum","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/40b25c33-8232-4db0-b9f8-48a047966bb2/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Lucy Kortum","height":400,"width":400,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/40b25c33-8232-4db0-b9f8-48a047966bb2/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/40b25c33-8232-4db0-b9f8-48a047966bb2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1]}]},"height":400,"width":400},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/40b25c33-8232-4db0-b9f8-48a047966bb2/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/40b25c33-8232-4db0-b9f8-48a047966bb2/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/40b25c33-8232-4db0-b9f8-48a047966bb2/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/logo"}