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The Stagecoach Inn Museum
JUNE Calendar of Events
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Hello readers and welcome to summer! I hope you have wonderful plans this summer and will include us in your activity planning. There are many interesting exhibits and activities at the INN this summer so don't miss out.
We have so many talented and devoted docents and volunteers---in this issue I want to make a special dedication to our School Tours Program chaired by Jackie Pizitz for over 30 years-so please take time to scroll down and read about our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade programs about local and period history!
Exhibits:
Downton Abbey Wedding, Tea, Lawn dresses on display--through summer
Celebrating our 50th Anniversary-Conejo Valley Historical Society--through December
Hair Jewelry--ongoing
Crank up the Music--ongoing (early music machines)
Calendar:
June 14th: Pioneer Jamboree,10AM - 4PM; fun for the whole family
June 15th: Father's Day
June 17th: Docent Recognition Luncheon: Remembering the 60's
June 22nd: Historical Bus Tour--back by popular demand! $10pp
July 4th: Celebrate the 4th & Ice Cream Social at the INN, 1-4PM
July 12th: La Fiesta del Triunfo to be held at the Gardens at Los Robles
Suzana Harris
Docent & CVHS Executive Board Member and Trustee
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SCHOOL TOURS AT THE STAGECOACH INN
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The Stagecoach Inn Museum continues to function as an outstanding educational resource for our community. We have a very talented team of thirty-four dedicated docents educating students about the history of the Conejo Valley. Last school year over 2400 hundred students and 450 parents participated in our program. The students are representative of private and public schools in Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
There are three separate tours geared for third, fourth and fifth grade students. The Chumash (3rd grade ) tour offers students the opportunity to pretend they are the original inhabitants of the Conejo Valley and lived in this area many years ago. The tour includes "hands on" experiences such as drawing Chumash pictographs, playing Chumash games, listening to Chumash legends, pounding acorns and taking a walk on the Nature Trail to see the indigenous plants.
The Pioneer program (4th grade) allows the students to participate in activities over one hundred and fifty years ago. They learn to make biscuits, wash clothes, beat rugs, and master the skill of an old fashion dance. They enjoy pretending to be students in the 1889 replica of the first school house in Newbury Park. Panning for gold is definitely a highlight of this tour.
The Western Movement challenges the fifth grade students by exposing them to ideas and experiences from the middle of the 1800s. They learn about the adventurous people of the "wild west". They experience the expression of these people through stories, music and crafts. The student s are mesmerized by the stories they hear inside the Spanish Adobe .
In addition to our on-site program, there is a traveling CHUMASH TRUNK that visits local third grade classes in the community. This program is very popular. Working with the students is a very rewarding and gratifying experience and we always need new docents to help educate our children.
If you are interested in our program, please call JACKIE at 805 497-4088
OR CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE
EDUCATIONAL TOURS
 
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SEE CONEJO VALLEY LANDMARKS BY BUS
Back by popular demand!!
Sunday June 22 @ 1:30 pm
Reservations required: $10 per person
Call (805) 498-9441 for reservations-seating is limited
Plan arriving at least 20 minutes prior to your departure time
Gratitude to Miriam Sprakling for creating and leading this wonderful tour.
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Saturday, June 14th 10AM to 4PM
Saturday, June 14, 2014 will be the annual Pioneer Jamboree at the Stagecoach Inn in Newbury Park. This is a "hands on history" event. Featured will be events celebrating both the Pioneer and Chumash cultures. Pioneer activities include panning for gold, churning butter and tasting homemade bread, butter & jam, squeezing lemons with antique machines, playing pioneer games, having a school lesson in a one-room school house, washing clothes with a washboard, cursive handwriting using old fashioned pen and ink, listening to pioneer stories, trying on pioneer clothing, making corncob and yarn dolls, roping a wooden horse, and making large bubbles with wooden and rope hoops.
Chumash activities will include Chumash legends, rock painting, Chumash games, and a fossil dig. Gene West, the toymaker, will let the children play with his wonderful toys, Rick Bernard, Conejo Valley Ferrier (blacksmith) will be making steel rings for children to wear, Antique engines will be there to observe, as will spinners and weavers. Tours of the Inn and Museum complex are included.
Donations for the event will be $6.00 for Adults, $5.00 for Seniors, $4.00 for children and FREE under three years. Family rate is $20.00 for a family of six. Refreshments available for sale
Hats off to Joyce Michelsen for once again chairing this fundraising event
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| NEW EXHIBIT : Downton Abbey -Wedding , Tea and Lawn Dresses | | |
May-August
This year we have a very special display of antique dresses from the Edwardian era. Picture yourself on the set of the popular PBS series Downton Abbey. The fashions you have been admiring in this series are of the Edwardian Era which followed the Victorian Era. During this period starting in the early 1900's and extending into the 1920's, women changed their attire several times a day depending on the activity they would pursue. In addition to the wedding gowns, there are many samples of day and evening dresses.
Imagine someone sitting down to dinner at Downton Abbey in one of these fabulous evening dresses as displayed in our dining room!
Downstairs, you will see dresses reminiscent of the early Edwardian period, through the 19- teens. Upstairs you will enjoy the fashions of the early 1920's including a lovely wedding party in the master bedroom.
 
This exhibit was made possible by the generous loan from the private collections of :
Teresa Norden and Barbara Macarthur who also display pieces of their extensive collections at LA's Heritage Square.
With Appreciation to docents Stasia Simrall and Blanca Relle for making this
wonderful exhibit possible
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THE HISTORY OF THE CONEJO VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Seeing is believing! Learn the story of the Inn from its beginning in1876. What might have happened to the Inn in the1960s?
What (3) three factors were necessary to preserve the Inn? Why was the CVHS formed? How active was the Society in the late 1960s? After the fire, why not just give up? Learn about the expansion of the outdoor museum complex.
What organizations have recognized us as historically significant? Is the Society fulfilling its commitments to the community? How many of these questions were you able to answer?
These and many more answers and learning opportunities are available by viewing the new exhibit that runs until December 2014.
With appreciation to docents
David & Maureen Morehouse
for
creating this exhibit
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EXHIBIT
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Crank Up the Music!!
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If you haven't seen the Crank up the Music exhibit of early music machines, please come for a visit. There are more than 30 machines. The earliest ones have large spectacular amplifying horns, and the later ones have extraordinary cabinetry. The exhibit also includes fanciful advertising posters and needle boxes.
There is a Victor-R machine made in 1902 known as "pre-dog" since it was marketed before the famous RCA dog, ""Nipper." Nipper, listening to "his master's voice" with his head cocked toward a record player, is still instantly recognizable. The pictured ten-panel morning glory horn is hand-painted and red with bright bursts of yellow and blue flowers. There is an unusual all glass horn on exhibit and two oak horns.
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. At the time, he was becoming hard of hearing and attempting to improve Alexander Graham Bell's telephone with an amplified earphone. Edison coated a cylinder with tinfoil and pressed a needle against it. Sound vibrations from the telephone's transmitter diaphragm caused the needle to etch a distinct line into the foil as the cylinder revolved. Kilbourne says even Edison was surprised to hear his words play back.
There are two phonographs in the exhibit that you can listen to and compare with today's recordings.
Thanks to
Ken & Barbara Kilbourne for their generous donation of this exhibit.
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Hair Jewelry
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This exhibit is one of the best collections of hairwork jewelry in the country. The collection donated by Andrea Tice. Andrea's Mother, Carmelita Johnson, was one of the first persons to write a book exclusively about hair art and Mrs. Johnson amassed one of the largest collections of the unusual pieces in the United States. The display has been designed by Darlene Appleford whose exhibits are always done with great skill and artistry.
During the 1850s in America, working hair into jewelry was a popular pastime. As a home craft, it was painstaking often requiring more than 80 strands of hair for one piece of weaving material. In the display, is a hair shirt in the style of the time, a picture frame, love knots, and even a doll's coat. Hair was fashioned into wreaths, pictures and jewelry by intricate twisting, braiding, weaving and made on tables just like lace-making. When finished the pieces were used as memorials, to commemorate important events, as friendship and love tokens, or just for decorative purposes.
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Heritage Memorial Rose Garden
The garden is located near the entry to the right. Entering this garden will literally take you down memory lane.
The Garden is filled with not only roses but many other colorful and fragrant flowers of all kinds.
The walkways of brick meander through the garden leading to a beautiful rose covered archway, where just beyond, sits a bench for resting and enjoying the splendor.
The walkway continues to grow each year, for it is truly a memory lane. As you look at the bricks you will see many fond memories of people, families, and even businesses, carved in stone for time everlasting.
Brick Pavers are 4" by 8" and may have up to three (3) lines of text with fifteen (15) characters per line (spaces = characters). To order please Print/type your message, include your name and phone number and send with your check for $75.00 payable to CVHS to:
CVHS - Memorial Brick, 51 South Ventu Park Road.,
Newbury Park CA 91320.
The Ventura County Rose Society planted and maintains this garden.
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| Contact Information | |
The Stagecoach Inn Museum 805-498-9441 51 South Ventu Park Road, Newbury Park, CA 91320 Sandra Hildebrandt Executive Director Jim Gilmore President, CVHS Stasia Simrall Docent Chair Debbie Birenbaum Junior Docent Chair Open from 1-4 Wed-Sun $5 Adults $4 Seniors & Youths $2 Children 5-12 Free Children under 5
The Conejo Valley Historical Society was formed in 1964 for the purpose of saving the Stagecoach Inn from destruction. The purpose of the Society is to preserve, present and promote the cultural heritage of the Conejo Valley.
To Joint the CVHS please click here JOIN NOW 
Antiques Study Group Meets Monthly, Thursdays Contact: Penny, 805-495-3297, pen1@verizon.net or Roz, 818-889-6904, rozgold@yahoo.com. Local Historical Books for sale at our Emporium (cash or check)
Tales & Voices of the Conejo
$12.95
Ladies of the Conejo
$12.95
Historical Tour of the Conejo Valley
$6.00
A Visit to the Historic Stagecoach Inn Museum
$7.00
Discovering the Story of the Conejo Valley
$15.00
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