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(805) 965-0093
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PO Box 388,
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CA 93102

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PRESS CONTACT
Jared Brach
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
ph (805) 966-1279
fax (805) 966-9888
jared@sbthp.org
www.sbthp.org

For Immediate Release

“Presidio Pastimes” Returns in Celebration of National Preservation Month - El Presidio de Santa Barbara Comes to Life with Living History Event for the Entire Family

(SANTA BARBARA, CA) – History comes to life with the year’s first “Presidio Pastimes” on Saturday, May 17 from 10:00 am to Noon at El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park. Step back in time and join in the activities as you experience life in Santa Barbara in the 1800s. Get your hands dirty and make adobe bricks to be used in the reconstruction of El Presidio. Experience Chumash stories and culture with Julie Tumamait-Stenslie. Learn about Early California cuisine with tortilla making and demonstrations in the authentic Presidio cocina(kitchen). Watch the Presidio soldiers (Los Soldados de Cuera) perform drills, while the blacksmith makes nails and horseshoes at a hot forge. Learn about the ongoing archaeology at El Presidio and try your hand at excavation. Practice calligraphy in the Comandancia (Commander’s quarters) and learn about Early California earthenware as you make pottery with help from Master Potter Ruben Reyes.

Museum admission is free on this day as the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation celebrates and shares Santa Barbara’s distinct heritage in recognition of National Preservation Month and this year’s theme – “This Place Matters.”

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CALENDAR LISTING

Presidio Pastimes
Saturday, May 17, 2008
10:00 am to Noon
El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park
123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA
FREE Admission
For more information (805) 965-0093 or visit www.sbthp.org

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ABOUT National Preservation Month - Since the National Trust for Historic Preservation created Preservation Week in 1971 to spotlight grassroots preservation efforts in America, it has grown into an annual celebration observed by small towns and big cities with events ranging from architectural and historic tours and award ceremonies, to fundraising events, educational programs and heritage travel opportunities. Due to its overwhelming popularity, the National Trust has extended the celebration to the entire month of May and declared it Preservation Month to provide an even longer opportunity to celebrate the diverse and unique heritage of our country’s cities and states and enable more Americans to become involved in the growing preservation movement. This year will mark the first official Preservation Month.

ABOUT the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation – Founded in 1963 by Dr. Pearl Chase and other concerned community leaders, the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization working to preserve, restore, reconstruct and interpret historic sites within Santa Barbara County. The Trust is the primary force behind the reconstruction and preservation of El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park and the restoration of Casa de la Guerra in downtown Santa Barbara. The Trust is also preserving and restoring the Santa Inés Mission Mills—the site of a future California State Park and recently purchased the building that housed Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens, providing an opportunity to interpret the history of Santa Barbara’s Asian community in the Presidio neighborhood. The Trust is currently reconstructing the Northwest Corner of El Presidio de Santa Barbara, the eighteenth-century Spanish colonial fort that is Santa Barbara’s birthplace. Using over 50,000 adobe bricks made on site, these additions will eventually house the new Presidio visitors’ center, and with the help of the new Santa Barbara Presidio Research Center, serve to interpret the city’s Hispanic heritage, and the larger multi-cultural heritage of the surrounding Presidio neighborhood from the eighteenth century to the present. For more information visit www.sbthp.org

Past Press Releases

Past press releases are in PDF format

2008

4.25.08 - SBTHP announces Historic Plaza de Alhecama building to get Built Green Environmental Retrofit

4.23.08 - SBTHP announces Jerome Bellamy joins Development team

4.15.08 - SBTHP and Sullivan Goss present "Views to Vistas: Impressions of Lockwood de Forest"

3.30.08 - SBTHP recognizes Outstanding Volunteer Lynn P. Kirst

3.12.08 - SBTHP presents Santa Barbara's Annual FOUNDING DAY Celebration

3.10.8 - SBTHP presents "No Boundaries" and art show and sale to benefit SCAPE and SBTHP

2.14.08 - SBTHP presents "Sacred Steps: Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago"

1.23.08 - SBTHP announces New Board President and Board Members

1.2.08 - SBTHP presents the return of the Haass Adobe Watercolors

2007

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