The non-profit Friends of Emerson Park has announced Edward O’Connor as the new Chairman of its Development Committee, a move ...

The Pirates of Emerson feature five haunted houses and other haunted attractions. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) The seasonal theme park’s origins are more modest, though.

Known as Park School when it opened in 1903, the name was changed to Emerson School. A tree from the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson was said to be planted on the school grounds in 1911.