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SUMMARY:Current Exhibit - Telling Stories of Mexican California - September 12
DESCRIPTION:Our Current Exhibit: Telling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making. \n \nSeptember 12 – November 3 2024\nPetaluma Historical Library & Museum\n20 4th Street (Corner of 4th & B Street)\nExhibit Hours:  Thursday – Sunday 10 am – 4 pm\nCost:  Free\, Donations Appreciated \nTelling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life &Myth Making is a revealing new exhibition that highlights the true stories of California’s Mexican period\, which lasted from 1822-1846. The exhibit holds these facts up alongside the fantasy depictions used by early stakeholders\, who viewed California’s history through the lenses of their own experiences and chose to present narratives that suited their purposes. One of the most pervasive narratives was a picture of an idyllic bygone era of ranchos where dons and doñas enjoyed lives of abundance. These romanticized memories fail to include Native peoples\, Franciscan friars\, and the hard scrabble facts of early settlements. \nThrough powerful photographs\, stories\, and artifacts\, Telling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making broadly outlines California’s history leading up to statehood as a backdrop to the factual and fictional stories that emerged after the US takeover. It considers nineteenth-century Mexican American individuals and families who told their stories and looks at some of the early narratives that helped create an enduring California mythos\, as well as the stories that were ignored in favor of this new\, often exaggerated or fictionalized lore. When California became a state\, these tales were used by boosters to draw new visitors and settlers\, successfully reconfiguring a fearful foreignness into a charming regional identity\, one that persists even today. \nThough it lasted less than three decades\, California’s Mexican period helped shape the distribution of land\, wealth\, and power after California officially entered the union in 1850. Telling Stories of Mexican California reflects on this past\, and how romanticized retellings made lasting impacts on the state’s culture and popular understandings of its history. \n  \n \n\nThe exhibition is developed by the California Historical Society\, drawing extensively from the their collections and consisting of 10 to 11 free-standing pop-up banners. The Petaluma Historical Library & Museum was one of three institutions selected through a competitive process as a sponsored host\, generously funded by the Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation. The Museum will concurrently display artifacts from our own collection related to early Mexican-American history in our region. \nTelling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making was developed and organized by the California Historical Society and tours through Exhibit Envoy. Institutional support provided by San Francisco Grants for the Arts and Yerba Buena Community Benefit District. The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation supported the first 3 bookings of this exhibition.
URL:https://www.petalumamuseum.com/calendar-event/current-exhibit-telling-stories-of-mexican-california-september-12/
LOCATION:Petaluma Historical Library & Museum\, 20 4th St\, Petaluma\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cornerstone Club Salon with Erin Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Members at the Cornerstone Club Level are cordially invited to join us for the inaugural Cornerstone Club Salon\, a new opportunity for Petaluma Historical Library & Museum donors to connect with like-minded community members and engage in a lively exchange of ideas with history thought leaders. \nHear directly from Erin Garcia\, Director of Exhibitions & Engagement at the California Historical Society and curator of Telling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making. She’ll share her insights on creating the exhibition\, discuss the enduring legacy of Californio culture\, and tell us about the challenges of researching pre-statehood California. \nWine and light refreshments will be provided. \nThis event is a benefit of membership at the Cornerstone Club level. For information about joining\, please email:\nsatchley@petalumamuseum.org\nStacey Atchley\,\nExecutive Director
URL:https://www.petalumamuseum.com/calendar-event/cornerstone-club-salon-with-erin-garcia/
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CATEGORIES:Cornerstone Club Salon,Current Exhibit
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