Guide Chelsey Stone with readers & runners in 2024.
SAN DIEGO, CA
On this 3 mile, easy-paced book club run, join Read & Run on the Road organizer Chelsey Stone to explore several of the institutions and public places funded by Ellen Browning Scripps’ philanthropy. Scripps was born in England 1836 and emigrated with her family to Illinois in 1844. It wasn’t until she was 61 years old that she moved to La Jolla and would begin her philanthropic endeavors, after her brother’s death in 1900. The New York Times estimates she gave over $44 million in 2023 dollars before she died in 1932. A champion of many causes, Scripps funded institutions to support women’s education, the labor movement, and public access to science, the arts, and education.
