Claremont Heritage has its annual meeting this Sunday, January 11th, at 2pm in the Garner House. There will be a guest lecturer and refreshments. Claremont Heritage's website had this information:
Annual Meeting Claremont Heritage will hold its Annual Meeting on Sunday, January 11, 2009 from 2:00 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Garner House in Memorial Park, located at 840 N Indian Hill Boulevard. The program is entitled "The Inconvenience of History: Reflections on Historic Preservation," and will be presented by Larry E. Burgess, a prominent regional Historian, Author and Director of the A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands. His lecture will focus on past and recent regional preservation projects and some lamentable failures.
Mr. Burgess gives 50 to 60 lectures each year on the history of Southern California and the West. He has written and collaborated on many books including The Smileys: A Biography (1969, 1993), The Hunt for Willie Boy (1994) and Images of America: Redlands (2004). He received his PhD. from the Claremont Graduate University. In the summer and fall of 2000, Burgess was Redlands' interim city manager.
The meeting will conclude with the election of three new Claremont Heritage Board members, recognition of outgoing Board members including retiring President Judy Wright and an annual report.
Refreshments will be served. Please join us.
Contact Ginger Elliott, 909-621-0848 or email: heritage.91711@verizon.net
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