History Comes Alive at Rancho Guajome’s Adobe Days
The public is invited to Adobe Days at Rancho Gua-jome Adobe County Park in Vista on June 11.
The lively festival, hosted by the County Department of Parks and Recreation, will celebrate local history, the rancho lifestyle, art and agriculture while hosting the rancho’s first-ever farmers market.
Hands-on activities will include adobe brick-making, gold panning, rope-making, acorn grinding, a petting zoo, and crafts for kids. Interactive demonstrations include blacksmith-ing and gardening.
Live music, Native American storytelling, tours of the 1853 adobe ranch house and a wide variety of food complete the fun.
Admission is $3 for teens and adults (age 13 and up), $1 for children (4-12), and free for children 3 and under. Parking is free.
The event runs from 10 a.m.–7p.m. at Rancho Gua-jome Adobe County Park, 2210 N. Santa Fe Ave., in Vista.
For more info visit online at http://www.sdparks.org.
Chula Vista Community Meeting
Northwest Civic Association Town Hall Meeting in the auditorium of the Chula Vista Civic Center Library (at 4th & F), Wednesday, June 8th at 6:00 p.m. Peter Callstrom (Executive Director) & Jennifer Litwak (Manager of Projects & Development) from the Regional Task Force on the Homeless will discuss homelessness issues in northwest Chula Vista. Chula Vista City Councilmember Steve Castaneda will also be available for questions on Chula Vista issues. The event is free. Everyone is welcome. For further information, please call 619-307-3460. www.northwestchulavista.org.
Fallbrook’s Writers Read Presents Historical Novelist Laurel Corona
Awarding-winning historical fiction author Laurel Corona will be featured at the Wednesday, June 8, Fallbrook’s Writers Read free monthly reading at the Café des Artistes in Fallbrook at 6 p.m. Corona will read from her third novel, Finding Emilie, followed by open mic for poetry and prose.
Corona, a professor of English and Humanities at San Diego City College, has a penchant for research and a gift for storytelling that turns history into compelling fiction. Set in the French Enlightenment period, Finding Emilie tells the story of the intriguing mathematician and physicist, Emilie du Châtelet, and her daughter Lily. Corona is also the author of The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi’s Venice and Penelope’s Daughter, the story of the Odyssey retold from a woman’s perspective. Corona’s books will be available for sale and signing by the author.
Entrance to the Café is from the parking lot behind the Fallbrook Art Center at 103 S. Main, off Alvarado Street. The Café opens at 5:30 and has a special bistro supper menu available for guests who would like to dine. For supper reservations, call 760-728-3160. The reading begins at 6 p.m.