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Pasadena Museum of History
470 W Walnut Street
Pasadena, CA 91103
www.pasadenahistory.org

EVENT(S):

Family Stories: Tastes, Tales & Tidbits: Fridays, October 23, October 30 & November 6
Tours at 12:15 pm; Luncheons at 1:30 pm

Focus on how project relates to Origins. Family Stories: Sharing a Community’s Legacy focuses on the origins of the Pasadena community by exploring the lives and experiences of six different families that chose to put down roots here. In these hour-long docent-led tours, we focus on the different family/ethnicity each week. Following a brief exhibition overview, tour guests will hear personal stories from a community elder or member of one of the families and have the opportunity for a Q&A session. Each tour concludes with a preservation tip related to family objects such as photographs, documents and letters, textiles and costumes.

Tour participants may complete the cultural experience with an optional special lunch at a restaurant of the featured ethnicity as follows:

Friday, October 23: Armenia-American Exhibition (Gertmenian Family)/Luncheon at Sahara Restaurant Friday

October 30: Latino Exhibition (Mejia Family)/Luncheon at El Portai Friday

November 6: African-American Exhibition (Duncan Family)/Luncheon at Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles

Family Stories: Sharing a Community’s Legacy: Wednesdays through Sundays
12:00 – 5:00 pm

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future,” Alex Haley. Family Stories: Sharing a Community’s Legacy focuses on the origins of the Pasadena community by exploring the lives and experiences of six different families that chose to put down roots here. The stories stories of the Duncan, Gertmenian, Kawai, Lowe, Mejia, and Stevenson families help the Museum shed light on the experiences of our African-America, Armenian-American, Chinese-America, Euro-American, Japanese-American, and Latino communities, respectively. Through these intimate, personal stories we can begin to understand why and how such ethnically/geographically/culturally diverse people cant to this region, discover the obstacles they had to overcome, the opportunities the were offered or denied, and the lives they built. It is the Museum’s hope that this exhibition will inspire everyone to reflect on how their own family’s lives and experiences are contributing to the ongoing creation of history and community.

Fiesta de Otono: Sunday, November 1
12:00 – 5:00 pm

Pasadena’s Latino community takes center stage in this family-oriented afternoon of activities in the beautiful gardens surrounding the Fenyes Mansion. Food and crafts booths, storytelling and entertainment are on tap. Visitors will also receive free admission to the Family Stories exhibition throughout the afternoon.

Luncheon/Discussion with Author Lisa See: Saturday, October 24
12:00pm

Family style Chinese meal at Pasadena’s Fu-Shing Restaurant with celebrated author Lisa See. Following lunch, Lisa will discuss the obstacles and challenges her family (On Gold Mountain) and her characters (Shanghai Girls) have faced as 19th and 20th century Chinese immigrants to the United States.