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Save the Date!

2008 Annual Home Tour

"A Romantic Stroll through Historic Homes & Gardens
on the Bluff above Dana Point Harbor"

Sunday, October 5, 2008

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Walk along the historic streets of romantic Dana Point.
Visit the historic and contemporary homes on charming Santa Clara
and walk the historic tree-lined El Camino Capistrano
with its bluff-top homes and lovely gardens.

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Our Next Monthly Meeting

June 23, 2008

Doheny State Beach Barbeque & Scholarship Dinner!

Historic Subject: Lucy Chavarrias Saunderson

If you can call barbequed tri-tip steak and chicken with barbecued beans, slaw, drinks, and dessert—and conversation with all the fun people in town—a picnic, you have the right idea! This event will occur Monday, June 23, in the Area A Picnic Pavilion of Doheny State Beach. Free entrance and parking will be provided, courtesy of our fine state park personnel.

The after-dinner program will be a salute to this year’s two scholarship winners and a light-hearted recount of the unique life of our scholarship namesake, Lucy Chavarrias Saunderson, by her two sons, Roberto Chavez and Jack Saunderson, who ate at Lucy’s El Patio since they were knee high to a cat—the Black Cat Hotel, that is, in Capistrano Beach. That’s part of the story.

Be there or be square!

The Dana Point Historical Society will meet regularly on the fourth Wednesday of each month (except March and June) at 7pm at:

Doris Walker is a founding member of the Historical Society.

Her books, including the newest shown above, are now available for sale at the Dana Point Chamber of Commerce,
and sales of her books benefit the Historical Society!

Doris Walker's current events and the cover and forward of her latest book, "Dana Point, Images of America", may be found here.

A short biographical sketch and a list of her books
may be found here.

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Our New Member Profiles

Read in Our Member Profiles about one of the Dana Point
Historical Society's Own Members, Mitchell "Mitch" Higginbotham, who enters history himself and is jointly awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the nation's highest honors,
by President Bush and Congress in 2007 here.

 

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Read Carlos Olveras' "The Rough Road to City Hood"

 

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Read Bruce Beal's History of Surfing & Oceanic History
in Dana Point:

Parts (click a number): I   II   III   IV  V  VI

 

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Read Terry Walsh's History of the
Dramatic Lives of Edward & Ned Doheny

and their Part in the History of Dana Point: Here

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The Dana Point Historical Society Wins Best Local Entry &
Celebrates the Surfing Heritage of Dana Point at the
2006 Whale Festival Parade: Here

 

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Please Note: The Museum is presently being relocated, and will soon be resurrected as a reference library where vintage photographs, books, maps, exhibits, oral histories and
other artifacts are collected and exhibited. Books, photos, along with other gift items, such
as Dana Point Historical Society shirts, are for sale. The Museum is staffed by volunteers
and all proceeds benefit the Dana Point Historical Society. 

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The Dana Point Historical Society is a California Non-Profit Corporation
and a Federal 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Organization: Tax ID# 33-0359288

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