May 19, 2012
46th Annual BBQ – The Desert Heritage We Inherited
Saturday, May 19, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Demonstrations & Exhibits:
- Gold panning – Keep what you find!
- Dry gold washing – See how it’s done
- Indian tool-making – Flint knapping demonstrations and more
- Hit and Miss engine – The desert workhorse
- Sourdough and Dutch oven cooking – Demonstrations and tasting
- Covered wagon display
- SBCo Search and Rescue
- Daggett strap jail – Come on in and do some time
- Drover’s car tour
- Medicinal plant display and information
- Desert cooler working replica
- Mexican arrastre
- Music as the muse strikes throughout the day – Billhillyz and Juliette Bascom and her magic fiddle.
Inside the Museum:
- 10:00 – Cliff Walker – Glimpses of Our Precious Desert Heritage
- 11:00 – Rob Fulton – Large and Small: Our Gifts of Nature
- 12:00 – John Valenzuela – Vanyume Indian: We’re not Extinct; We’re Still Here
- 1:00 – Brantley Jackson – Thousands of Years of Desert Indians
- 2:00 – Walter Feller – Trues Stories, Legends and Lies of the Mojave Desert
- 3:00 – Book signings: Phyllis Kolbly, The Three Churches of St. Joseph’s Volume I and Paige M. Peyton, Images of America: Calico
Book sales, membership specials, bargain bin gifts, door prize drawing.
May 30, 2012
The speaker for the museum May 30 meeting is Tonya Littlewolf of the Wolf Mountain Sanctuary in Lucerne Valley. As always join us for a no-host dinner at Rosita’s Restaurant, 540 W Main St, Barstow, about 5:30 before the meeting.
April 25, 2012
People’s Choice Photography Contest. Photos may be turned in at the museum anytime from March 31, 2012 to April 25, 2012 at 1:00pm. Voting begins April 9, 2012.
Speaker: Walter Feller – Photography in the Mojave Desert Landscape
As always join us for a no-host dinner at Rosita’s Restaurant, 540 W Main St, Barstow, about 5:30 before the meeting.
