1997-10-18 04:00:00 PDT BLACKHAWK -- If universities can teach
courses on Madonna, why shouldn't a museum hold a panel
discussion on . . . Blackhawk?  Yes, the bumptious subdivision
that's 20 years young. It's not just a place where 6,000 people
live behind gates separating them from the rest of us; it's the
Bay Area's favorite symbol of brash cash. Let quiet money take
Orinda; Jose and Esther Canseco headed straight for Blackhawk
Drive.  So when the Museum of San Ramon Valley hosted a talk
Wednesday on "The Blackhawk Wars of the 1970s," I was there with
bells on, as were 45 other people interested in local lore.  The
hour-long session was studded with facts: how the proposal
shrank from 4,800 to 2,400 houses. How political pressures
forced developer Ken Behring to up his donation of land to Mount
Diablo State Park from 40 to 2,000 acres.  Still, facts are only
part of the story -- a point made when Danville Councilwoman
Millie Greenberg noted how Blackhawk is as much myth as reality.
"In terms of public per