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June 2024

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The Milpitas Muse, June 2024 lists the following articles:

  • Our Next Meeting is June 12th at 7:00 pm
  • SCCPA Awards Night
  • Our Society’s Contact Information
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Letter from Joe and Cat

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 12:18:55 PM PDT, Joseph Ehardt <joseph.ehardt@comcast.net> wrote:

Good (and hot) morning everyone!

The Society is holding its last meeting before we enter the July-August vacation period. I think this month’s meeting on Wednesday, June 12th, at 7PM in the Milpitas Library Auditorium will be very interesting. Announcement posters were installed last week in the Library Reading Room.

Our distinguished speaker is Lorie Garcia, a 7th-generation Bay Area native whose ancestors arrived in California in the Juan Bautista de Anza colonizing expedition of 1775-1776. She is an historian who has guest lectured on historic preservation and other aspects of California history at both San Jose State University and Santa Clara University as well as public meetings such as ours.  Lorie is a published author of local history, (including A Place of Promise: The City of Santa Clara, 1852-2000); she has also written articles for journals on California history. Ω

Lorie is a founding member of the Heritage Council of Santa Clara County, the Historic Preservation Society of Santa Clara, and City Historian for the City of Santa Clara.  In 2010, she became one of the first two individuals in the State to receive a State of California Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation.   

Lorie’s presentation is about an important California female photographer, Alice Iola (Schnatterly) Hare (1859-1942), who produced hundreds of pictures recounting the history of California, its various buildings, and the people who had contributed to its cultural make-up. Alice’s photographs comprise an  impressive body of work that chronicled the geography and other aspects of the Santa Clara Valley, both historical and contemporary to her time. 

Besides being an accomplished photographer, Alice Hare was a proficient writer, producing numerous articles and poems on the history and geographic wonders of the region and State, She also was an artist of no small merit, a dedicated club woman and ultimately a librarian. 

Please join us in the Library on June 12th if your schedule permits.

Joe & Catherine