At the Annual Membership Meeting on June10th, the membership elected the 2024/25 board of directors for SHSMA: Returning board members: Javier Morales, VP; Rose Kausek, Secretary; Tanya Khachiyan, Heather Dunphy-Nielsen, Angela Hixson, Margaret Lawson, Carol Holmgren, Justin Wang New board ... Read More about New Board Members (2024/2025)
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New! Members Only Time Travelers Book Club
The Time Traveler’s Book Club We are excited to announce a new Members-Only program at the museum: The Time Travelers’ Book Club! This will be a great opportunity to meet with others who enjoy history and deep-dive into a particular time period! What: Instead of everyone reading a single assigned ... Read More about New! Members Only Time Travelers Book Club
Michael Malone’s Presentation and Book Signing
Presenter Michael Malone delighted his audience at the June 10th Speaker Night at the museum with drawing a wide arc of history in Sunnyvale. He laid out by examples from various points in the city's history that it has always attracted entrepreneurs, starting with Father Serra, and leading into the ... Read More about Michael Malone’s Presentation and Book Signing
Full House for “California Bound” Presentation
Robert Keahey’s talk titled “California Bound: Opening the West” filled every seat in the museum’s meeting room. He laid out the history of westward migration from 1840 to 1846, but looked back to the 1820s and the Santa Fé Trail as well as the early 1800s and the Oregon Trail, to set the stage ... Read More about Full House for “California Bound” Presentation
Speaker Night
February 16, 7pm, at the museum SHS Docent Robert Keahey will give a presentation on early immigration to California. Hear about the various routes immigrants traveled, early attempts to cross the Sierra Nevada in wagons, the successful trek of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train, and ... Read More about Speaker Night
