PASSPORT 2 HISTORY MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
June 2020, Vol. 99
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We hope you and yours are keeping safe and healthy as California begins to reopen! Passport 2 History museums are doing their part to keep visitors, volunteers, and staff safe, happy, and enjoying California history, however that may look as we face a post-COVID California.
We're excited to bring you a range of cool content this month, from the first openings among our family of sites to continuing digital programs. We are so proud of our partner institutions for their innovation and creativity in continuing to create awesome programs and exhibits while remaining physically distant!
As you look forward to getting out and exploring California history once again, we welcome you to check out our Google Earth map. Zoom in to street view to explore historic neighborhoods. Click site pins to learn more and find a link to each site's webpage. It's been tough to stay inside these past months, and we hope you look forward to stamping your
Passport
when the time is right!
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If you're experiencing difficulties, copy and paste the following link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GwBzFZYtRNNXL5Os7U19z-IfyXIYugMX&usp=sharing
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Follow these museums on social media for awesome content all month long!
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Rancho Los Alamitos
Don’t miss our historic garden series for National Public Gardens Week (#NPGW #OurGardensYourHome) on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We post highlights from our gardens, barnyard, historic house, and archives to give our followers a taste of a visit to the Rancho while we remain closed to the public for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis. #RanchoFromHome
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California Oil Museum
Join our online community for fun, educational resources, free downloads, giveaways, exhibit information, and more! Visit online
on our #MuseumFromHome page
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Also, follow us on social media
@caoilmuseum
as we share weekly content for #MineralMondays, #WomeninSTEMWednesdays, and #FossilFridays. Let's #MuseumFromHome together!
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Camp Roberts Historical Museum
The museum remains closed, but visit
our website
to take a virtual tour and see photographs dating from since the camp opened as the US Army's largest basic training installation in 1941. You can also follow Camp Roberts on Facebook.
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Leonis Adobe Museum
Follow the Leonis Adobe Museum on Facebook and Instagram for #CollectionsCloseUps, photographs #FromTheArchives, and of course regular updates of what our always lovable, sometimes rascally ranch animals are up to these days. We’d also love to see your adobe-inspired art at #LAMDrawTogether (download our coloring pages
here
to color with us!)
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Have you binge-watched your entire Netflix queue and devoured all the latest new releases? We can help.
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DIY with the Leonis Adobe
Leonis Adobe Museum
It’s okay to play with your dinner at the Leonis Adobe Museum. Dry the husks from your summer BBQ corn and make a doll!
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Curious about the history of water in Southern California? Watch our fascinating new 10-minute film!
Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch & Gardens
Curious about the history of water in Southern California? Watch our fascinating new 10-minute film, “Rancho Los Alamitos and the Story of Water” on the VIRTUAL VISITS page on Rancho Los Alamitos’ website. We continue to update this page with other virtual experiences.
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Virtual Tour: Exterior Campus of the Reagan Library
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
Enjoy a brand new virtual tour of the exterior campus of the Reagan Library!
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BENEATH THE ROCKS: The Archeological Digs of the Ancient Indian Village of Tujunga
Bolton Hall/Little Landers Historical Society
The Bolton Hall Museum 2nd Saturday Program is available on YouTube. Presented by The History Hunter, Craig W. Durst.
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Sat, Jun 6, 10am-12pm
Living History Flying Day - P-47 Thunderbolt
Planes of Fame Air Museum
Open to the public, Planes of Fame Air Museum (Chino, CA) presents its monthly Living History Flying Day on June 6, 2020, featuring the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. A speaker panel of distinguished aviation experts and historians is featured, followed by a question & answer period and flight demonstration when possible. The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt will be on display and perform a flight demonstration (subject to change).
PLEASE NOTE
: Due to Covid-19 this event may be postponed or canceled. Please check our website for details.
General Admission $15.00, Children ages 11-5 $6.00, Children 4 and under are free. Parking is always free!
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ZOOM-based Rancho Camulos Museum Docent Training is coming your way!
Rancho Camulos Museum
Have you been thinking about getting out and doing more volunteering in the future? Opportunity knocks. We need volunteers to support our mission of local California historical education, preservation, and restoration. Whatever your interests, you will find your niche at this National Historical Landmark. Are YOU interested in making a difference? Email info@ranchocamulos.org for more info on our Zoom-based training.
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Virtual Tour Now Available! “Legacy: Seven Decades of Ventura College Art”
Museum of Ventura County
"Legacy: Seven Decades of Ventura College Art" is now available as a virtual tour! For seven decades the art department at Ventura College has been at the cultural hub of the city of Ventura’s arts minded community. The artists who have taught at the college and the students who have studied in the department continue to nurture and define art in the region.
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Read About the History of Printers and Pandemics
International Printing Museum
Read about the history of printers and pandemics on the International Printing Museum’s blog!
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Virtual Tour of the Rancho Los Cerritos Adobe Home
Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site
Tour the Rancho Los Cerritos adobe home online.
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Long Ago Long Beach Online
Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site
Our award-winning after school program is now online! Families can download the activity book and follow along with video lessons.
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Sample Educator Workshops from the California Oil Museum for Your Virtual Classroom!
California Oil Museum
ATTENTION EDUCATORS
: Here at the California Oil Museum, we are missing our educational workshops and field trips. We think the teachers and students of Ventura County are amazing, and would like to help them #MuseumFromHome since they are unable to visit the Museum at this time. Our Education Department is offering samples of our workshops for educators to borrow in their virtual classrooms! Download the application today! Visit us at
our #MuseumFromHome page
. There, you will also find additional educational resources and material!
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Rare Views of Los Angeles Harbor Now On Line!
Los Angeles Maritime Museum
As part of an ongoing project making historic photographs easily accessible online, the Los Angeles Maritime Museum has posted the Matt Walsh Collection. Walsh (1866-1960) was a well-known yachtsman and owner of the Garbutt & Walsh Shipyard that operated on Terminal Island (Port of Los Angeles) from 1905 to 1947. The collection of over 600 images includes some of Walsh's best known builds, including the yacht THOROBRED, as well as ferries and military craft produced during World War II. The collection provides a rare view of boatbuilding and sailboat racing in the Port of Los Angeles during the early 20th century.
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Through 27 June
Shore Lore: How Prohibition Changed Ventura County
Channel Islands Maritime Museum
On this 100th Anniversary of when prohibition began, we look back on how Ventura County dealt with the 18th Amendment. Rumrunners delivered the "good stuff" to America's speakeasies. Rumrunning, the organized smuggling of imported whiskey, rum and other liquor by sea and over land to the United States, started within weeks after Prohibition took effect on January 17, 1920. People still wanting to wet their whistles in illegal speakeasies and at home were rejecting foul-tasting and dangerous locally made industrial alcohol being passed off as the real thing. They were demanding quality, authentic Scotch and other liquor “right off the boat.”
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Online
Pasadena Museum of History's Black History Collection
Pasadena Museum of History
The Black History Collection, one of more than 250 special collections in Pasadena Museum of History's Archives, is now permanently available to the public online as part of a generous digitization grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities through the University of Southern California's L.A. as Subject Community Histories Digitization Project. The Black History collection includes more than 3,000 pages of materials and 400 historic photographs that have been re-housed and processed according to professional archival standards by USC Imaging & Media Lab.
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Online
Tea Through Time
Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site
Since 1844, many different people have passed through the doors of Rancho Los Cerritos, and although there were many different cultures, one of the threads that ties the individuals together is the tradition of serving and drinking tea. Tea through Time at Rancho Los Cerritos is our latest online exhibit, curated by Arts Council for Long Beach intern Anthony Smyers. This is the second online exhibit published by the Rancho and we will be curating more in the future so that you can enjoy our museum collections from home.
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Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo
Museum of Ventura County
Originally scheduled to open in early March, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, "Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo" is now available as a 3D virtual exhibit! "Huelga!" is photography exhibit from the 1970s labor strikes featured along with memorabilia from the collection of longtime local activist and civic leader, Jorge Corralejo. We learn about his time with United Farm Workers, working alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta from the Boston A & P strikes to the streets of Oxnard. Step into "Huelga!" today!
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Help Document a Historic Moment
Passport 2 History partner sites are collecting stories and material relating to the historic moment created by COVID-19. You can help future generations understand the experience of living through this unique period in our lives by contributing your thoughts and photographs to museum archives.
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Little Landers Historical Society Seek COVID-19 Stories, Thoughts, Photos
Bolton Hall Museum/Little Landers Historical Society
Are you keeping a journal or record of your thoughts? Are you taking photos? Subjects you might want to write about and share with Bolton Hall Museum are:
How has your life and the lives of those you love changed?
How are you keeping in touch with family and friends?
Are you leaving your home for neighborhood walks, food shopping, necessary appointments or work?
How does it feel to see empty shelves and closed restaurants and other businesses?
How are you filling your time at home? New activities? More time for other activities that there never seemed to be enough time for?
Are you working from home?
If you have children at home, what are their days like?
Did you get the virus? How was your care and recovery?
Anything else that you would like to share with future generations?
Your "stories" can be sent as notes or short answers to the above questions or any other subjects that relate to this historical event, or a paragraph, an article or a longer journal and can be transmitted by regular mail or e-mail to:
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Documenting COVID-19 in the Crescenta Cañada Valley
Lanterman House
The Lanterman House has launched a new project titled "Documenting COVID-19 in the Crescenta Cañada Valley." We are asking local residents to share their stories during this challenging time.
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Rapid Response Collecting at the Museum of Ventura County
Museum of Ventura County
Submit your stories, videos, and photos to the Museum of Ventura County via the link below to help document this historic time we’re living through.
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About the Passport 2 History Program
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Step 1:
Get Your P2H Passport Booklet!
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Step 2:
Visit great institutions!
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Step 3:
Share your adventure!
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Make the most of P2H!
Visit every site?
Bring your completed booklet to P2H HQ at the Leonis Adobe Museum for a prize!
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About Us
Passport 2 History unites the sites, collections, experiences, and organizations that tell the story of Southern and Central California and its people.
We celebrate the institutions that take visitors back in time, showcase local experiences and talent, and preserve the artifacts and monuments of our state's rich heritage. We proudly invite you to enjoy all they have to offer. Participating sites submit events, exhibits, and announcements to be included in the regular monthly newsletter.
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Passport 2 History is facilitated by the
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Passport 2 History is brought to you by the Leonis Adobe Museum in beautiful Old Town Calabasas. The Leonis Adobe Museum is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #1 and operates as a living history museum.
Feed animals and explore one of the oldest residences in Los Angeles County. Learn the story of Miguel Leonis, a French Basque immigrant who became the King of Calabasas, and Espiritu Leonis, his Chumash-Tongva commonlaw wife who, following Miguel's death, won a 16-year court battle for a wife's share of his estate despite the odds against her.
To learn more about the Leonis Adobe Museum, check out KCET's
Visiting with Huell Howser
episode about us, available
on YouTube
!
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* Please note that while we strive to list the most accurate information available at the time of publishing this newsletter, it is always best to contact the institution directly to confirm dates and times listed, especially while COVID-19 continues to affect businesses' abilities to operate as normal. Thank you!
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