Quarterly Meetings
Spring
The Anza and Portola Expeditions
guest speaker: Phil Valdez, Jr. MBA
Sunday, March 6, 2011
1 PM - 3:30 PM
Sharp Park Library - Community Room
104 Hilton Way
FREE
Phil Valdez Jr., MBA, a former Professor of Financial Management, is an 8th generation descendent of Juan Bautista Valdez, soldado de cuera, on the 1769 Portola Expediton and courier on the 1774 Juan Bautista de Anza Exploratory Expedition to California. Phil's ancestor brought Anza's original orders, from Mexico City to el Presidio de San Ignacio de Tubac, now in Arizona, and accompanies the expediton as courier to Mission San Gabriel, becoming the first man in recorded history to make the round trip on horse back between Mexico City and San Gabriel, Alta California. Considered an expert on the topography of the routes of both Anza expeditons to California, he has authored the Anza Letters, relative to the feud between Lt. Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza and Captain/Governor Fernando de Rivera y Moncada and numerous other articles. His presentation will cover Anza's subsequent expediton around the East Bay, to see if in fact ther was a Rio Grande de San Francisco.
Summer
Lifeways of the Ohlone People
guest speaker: Nicole Lopez-Hagen
Sunday, June 26, 2011
1 PM - 3:30 PM
Sanchez Adobe
FREE
Autumn
Shipwrecks on the Coast
guest speaker: JoAnn Semones, Ph.D
Sunday, October 2, 2011
1 PM - 3:30 PM
Sharp Park Library - Community Room
104 Hilton Way
FREE
Dr. Semones latestest book, "Hard Luck Coast: The Perilous Reefs of Point Montara," is the second of a trilogy she is writing about shipwrecks at lighthouses along the centeral California coast. According to Sea Classics magazine, she is a "master storyteller, with great authority, pathos and skill".
Winter
Holiday party - MEMBERS ONLY
December 2011 - details to be announced
music - food - fun!
admission $10 plus the donation of an horsd'oeuvre (finger food)
RSVP by 11/30/11 to Shirlee Gibbs shirlee@pacificahistory.org