LOCAL HISTORY at 7.30pm on Tuesday evening at Temescal Canyon on the Marquez Family Land Grant from Santa Monica to Topanga

The Chautauqua Series - a monthly Tuesday evening event that is reminiscent of the Chautauqua Movement.

Sere http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/essay.htm to learn more about the movement:

"Theodore Roosevelt called it "the most American thing in America," Woodrow Wilson described it during World War I as an "integral part of the national defense," and William Jennings Bryan deemed it a "potent human factor in molding the mind of the nation." 

We have been attending the Chautauqua Series for a few years ... topics range from tracking the mountain lions corridors in the Santa Monica Mountains ... to exploring San Andreas fault .. to wine-tasting from local vineyards. 

It would be interesting to learn about the Marquez family after which the Marquez Knolls and Marquez Elementary School is named after.

6,656 Acres of Family History - Culture in the Canyon at Chautauqua Series

 

• Where: Temescal Gateway Park, 15601 W Sunset Blvd, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
• Date: April 19, 2011
• Time: 7:30pm–9:00pm

• Cousins Terri de la Peña and Sharon Reyes, descendents of the Marquez/Reyes family, began a journey into their genealogy that all started in 1839 with the Mexican land grant of Rancho Boca de la Santa Monica. The grant stretched from present day Santa Monica to Topanga Canyon. Spend an evening with rich family stories and ancestral photographs that connect to all of us living in the Santa Monica Mountains of today. Meet at Woodland Hall. Parking is free for the evening. 1.5hrs
  Program sponsored by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and presented by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority
• Features: Free, Open to All

• Website: http://lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=58
• Phone: 310-858-7272 x131
• Email: robin.smith@mrca.ca.gov

• Price: Free program, free parking for the evening