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Events

September 9
Sesquicentennial celebration at Peralta adobe in San José, California, with site dedication and installation of wayside exhibit. Contact: Wells Twombly, 408-993-8182

October 21-22
Annual Anza Days at Tubac Presidio State Historical Park. Contact Cindy Krug, Park Manager, 520-398-2252

October 22 
Annual celebration at Old Stage Road in San Juan Bautista, California. Contact: June Ely, 831-726-2884

October 31
Reenactment at Casa Grande Ruins with participation of O'odham and a presentation by Bernard Fontana. Contact: Don Kucera, 510-792-0554

November 11-12 
Official National Millennium Trail Event at Yuma to include living history, performances of music and dance by the New World Baroque Orchestra, and reenactments of the expedition arriving in Yuma and crossing of the Colorado River. Most events will be held at Yuma Crossing State Park. Contact Don Kucera: 510-792-0554.
 
 
New Book
The Census of 1790, A Demographic History of Colonial California by William Marvin Mason, a Ballena Press publication. The book provides lists of members of the two colonizing expeditions that followed the Anza Trail, Anza's own and one led by Rivera in 1781. The census, along with mission records, offers "much about early California that has not been made evident, such as the geographic origins of the colonials, their racial composition, ratio of men to women, marriage patterns, relative ages of husbands and wives, cross-caste marriage		  
incidence,and other factors, relative percentage of Europeans in the adult population, and the relative number of married to unmarried men, for example." The census dispels myths that California was either peopled by "old Spanish blood" or by ne'er-do-wells, convicts, and rascals. It also shows that the majority of California's colonial population came from Sinaloa, southern Sonora, and the lower half of Baja California. The author suggests that the speech, folktales, idioms, and culture of early California may still be preserved in the town of Sinaloa today.

superintendent recognized Lt. Col. Lawrence W. Kimmel, Commander, and Brian Duke, Environmental Officer at Camp Roberts for their work to recognize and mark the Anza Trail. Also recognized for their continuing contributions to the Anza Trail were Myra Douglass (San Luis Obispo County) and Paul Trujillo (Monterey County) of Amigos de Anza.

* A blessing by the Gabrieleno-Tongva opened the dedication of a wayside exhibit for the Anza Trail On February 19, 2000, at a mini-park along the Los Angeles River at Oros Street in a largely Latino area. Called "Families on the Move," the exhibit depicts and notes that the Anza expedition was comprised of families, many with young children, of mixed European, African, and Indian ancestry. Later, some of these same

    settlers helped found the pueblo of Los Angeles. North East Trees, a non-profit group, received Challenge Cost Share Program funds to prepare the exhibit. Speaking at the dedication were staff for Congressman Xavier Becerra, state Senator Richard Polanco, Assemblyman Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor Richard Riordan, and Meredith Kaplan, trail superintendant. The mayor and city councilwoman Jackie Goldberg recognized the National Park Service with certificates.

"Families on the Move" painted by Nancy Romero		    * An interpretive marker for Anza campsite #76 was dedicated on March 19 along the Atascadero Bikeway near Goleta, California. Joining the ceremony were Los Soldados de Presidio de Santa Barbara led by Jim Martinez, Presidio Mounted Soldiers led by David Goena, and Native Sons of the Golden West. Recognized by the trail superintendent for their work in seeing the Anza Trail marked through the county were County Supervisor Susan Rose, County Public Works planner Wilson Hubbell, and Amigos de Anza members Vivian and George Obern. The Santa Barbara Trails Council newsletter quotes from Time-Life Books, "As a soldier, explorer and provincial governor, Anza was to prove one of the most intelligent and able men ever to serve Spain in the New World." 
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