Happy Women’s History Month! We remember leading ladies’ legacies. View our collection of WWII Homefront stories. Route 66 – Happy 100th Birthday to America’s Mother Road: Paintings by Joan Gladstone December 13, 2025 – May 30, 2026 at the Hilbert Art Museum in Orange Celebrate the centennial of America’s most iconic highway as artist Joan… Read More Field Notes | March 2026
Red Car at Balboa Pavilion, circa 1906, Photo courtesy of the Newport Beach Historical Society. Newport Beach summer visitors grew steadily after the Pacific Electric Railway connected the city to Los Angeles on July 4th, 1906. 2026 will mark the 120th anniversary of the Red Car and Pavilion. The Red Car made it accessible for… Read More Field Notes | July 2025
Celebrating Stories of the Sea: Wooden Boats in Film & Fiction Event Open to The Public June 13 & 14, 2025Newport Beach, CA – (March 19, 2024) – There is something undeniably romantic about a great adventure at sea. Think back to when a great sea tale first captured your imagination. Was it Jim Hawkins… Read More 9th Annual Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival
We are working on Sawdust Art Festival’s 60th Anniversary book. You can follow the project and contribute your story! The archive contains thousands of never before seen photos, slides, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. Dive into the fascinating history of Sawdust and explore how Laguna Beach’s art scene developed. This book will contain excerpts from the… Read More Sawdust Art Festival
Jennifer Keil shared her experiences as a 2014 Masters Degree graduate from the History Department in the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History in the Biennial Report | 2020-2021. Creating Access to California History showcases partnerships with cities and museums. Keil is the Founder of 70 Degrees and Museum Director of Moulton… Read More Center for Oral and Public History
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