Take a step back in time to 1856 and experience the life of soldiers and civilians!  Frontier Army Day demonstrations may include 1850s army barracks life, artillery drill, army horsemanship, carpentry shop, weapons demonstrations, blacksmith shop, open hearth cooking, military drills, laundry/candle making, and officer's quarters.*  Tickets are $5/adult and $3/child.  For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact the Fort Tejon State Historic Park at forttejon.admin@parks.ca.gov or (661) 248-6692.

*Demonstration availability may vary.

This online course sets the stage for the JFKU CE series.  We will discuss the importance of museums to communities, starting with mission, vision, and values.  Lectures, discussions, and readings will explore museum functions, collections, programming, audiences, and stakeholders. Reflection and written assignments will draw on your own experiences and prepare you for learning and engagement in the next four courses. Registration is $350.  Please contact Susan Spero (sspero@jfku,edu) for more information!

This online course offers an overview of key concepts: tools and systems used in museum registration. Topics include acquisitions, loans, database management, exhibition planning and preventative conservation.  Moderated by a museum registrar, this course features short lectures; brief readings. Registration for this courses is $350 - please contact Susan Spero (sspero@jfku.edu) for more information and for registration.  

Take a step back in time to 1856 and experience the life of soldiers and civilians!  Frontier Army Day demonstrations may include 1850s army barracks life, artillery drill, army horsemanship, carpentry shop, weapons demonstrations, blacksmith shop, open hearth cooking, military drills, laundry/candle making, and officer's quarters.*  Tickets are $5/adult and $3/child.  For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact the Fort Tejon State Historic Park at forttejon.admin@parks.ca.gov or (661) 248-6692.

*Demonstration availability may vary.

We invite you to join the Tulare County Historical Society under the oak trees at the Tulare County Museum in Mooney Grove Park on Sunday, October 6 from 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for their annual fundraiser! You can enjoy the toe tapping tunes of the band Run for Cover while you enjoy a delicious tri-tip meal provided by the Happy Cookers. They are excited to share what their funds have been able to do at the museum and continue to grow with your help. Tickets are $50 each and you are sure to enjoy your evening with them.

This October, join CCHS at our Fall Workshop in Sacramento, CA for a day filled with educational resources and networking!  We will focus on the nuts and bolts of starting and oral history program and how to bring oral history to life.  There will also be a tour of the Museum of Medical History.  More information coming soon - registration opens August 13, 2019.

A lone photographer embarked on a momentous journey in the American West traveling west from the shores of the Pacific Ocean to the banks of the Colorado River and the mines of Eldorado Canyon in today’s Nevada.  The year was 1863, many years before anyone else took the next photo of this desert and its travelers, crossroads, forts, soldiers, and watering holes.

On Sunday, Oct. 20 at 3:00 p.m., at the Duarte Historical Museum, 777 Encanto Parkway, Duarte, Author Jeffrey Lapides will reveal many of these rare photos and tell the story of the German photographer Rudolph d’Heureuse—a surveyor, cartographer, civil engineer, mining engineer, oenologist, photographer and inventor.  The backdrop to this story is the American Civil War, relations between white settlers, Hispanics, and Native Americans, military exploits, salacious news accounts, and greed.

Lapides is a Southern California jewelry photographer and book designer residing in Sierra Madre. His current book entitled The Mojave Road in 1863: The Pioneering Photographs of Rudolph d’Heureuse will be on display and available for purchase.

Admission is free.  For more information call:  626 358-0329.

Take a step back in time to 1856 and experience the life of soldiers and civilians!  Frontier Army Day demonstrations may include 1850s army barracks life, artillery drill, army horsemanship, carpentry shop, weapons demonstrations, blacksmith shop, open hearth cooking, military drills, laundry/candle making, and officer's quarters.*  Tickets are $5/adult and $3/child.  For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact the Fort Tejon State Historic Park at forttejon.admin@parks.ca.gov or (661) 248-6692.

*Demonstration availability may vary.

Handcrafts, vintage items, antiques, local author book signings, entertainment, food and holiday fun will fill the day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on December 7 at the Andres Duarte Statue Plaza and adjacent Grace Fellowship Church, 1551 Huntington Drive in Duarte.  A vendor registration application is available on www.RanchoDeDuarte.org, or contact Karen Levein at (626) 201-1449 or k.levein@gmail.com for further information.

The Fair is sponsored by the Duarte Historical Society and Museum and co-sponsored by the City of Duarte and the Grace Fellowship Church. Fair admission is free.

Take a step back in time to 1856 and experience the life of soldiers and civilians!  Frontier Army Day demonstrations may include 1850s army barracks life, artillery drill, army horsemanship, carpentry shop, weapons demonstrations, blacksmith shop, open hearth cooking, military drills, laundry/candle making, and officer's quarters.*  Tickets are $5/adult and $3/child.  For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact the Fort Tejon State Historic Park at forttejon.admin@parks.ca.gov or (661) 248-6692.

*Demonstration availability may vary.