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VOLUME 2021 ISSUE 1 February, 2021 President’s Message Pam Pond tem, we have installed a weather station Don’t you love to protect docents and visitors alike. Coming Events in 2021 February with Valen- When we reopen as an outdoor museum, tines, hearts, flowers, we will be better prepared for unsafe and and a sprinkling of unexpected weather events that may Covid-19? arise. Keeping our docents, and visitors In a normal year alike, safe is our biggest priority. we would be showcas- Woeful- ing our antique valen- ly this month, REOPENING NEWS!!! tine collection alongside beautifully dec- we will bid adieu orated rooms with flowers and love on to our beautiful February 20th the mind. Sadly, not this year. Covid-19 California Live had a different idea. Oak. We will We will be back on February 20th, have a small opening outdoors with the wonder and ceremony with splendor of our collection; showcasing Allan Salazar, our grand magnificence. elder of the Chu- Our holiday event in December, last- mash and Tataviam ing just three days, alas, was incredible. tribes , giving a Our radio show, special exhibits, lights, blessing for the The museum reopens! storytelling, and Santa with Mrs. Claus tree. We will Come and view our to top everything off, was extraordi- film a short outside attractions and nary. It was a beautiful and picture- YouTube video peek inside open doors perfect event to bring holiday cheer into of this magical event. Several interesting to view interiors. everyone’s hearts. Plans are already videos have been recently made and post- Saturdays 1—4 PM being made for next year. You won’t ed to our YouTube Channel. Look for a want to miss it. new one in this issue on page seven. Behind the scenes we are working Check out all of them today and subscribe together to provide a more secure and for new videos and updates to the chan- protected environment to better pre- nel. serve our antiquities. Many busy do- We are looking into other future im- March is Women’s cents have been cataloging, archiving, provement projects. We hope you will be History Month and updating our historical pieces. Also, moved to personally consider donating to Starting on March 6th we are currently refurbishing our anti- them for the betterment of the museum. we will present our quated AC and heating unit to better Look for these opportunities to donate popular live “radio improve the preservation of all the his- soon online. We are also currently explor- show” on selected Sat- torical artifacts that make our museum ing business and community partnerships urdays, on the Grand a nationally renowned place to visit. It that will continue to preserve the history Porch. It features will be a museum-worthy climate con- of our community, following in the tradi- “Ladies of the trol system. tions of our city’s founding members. Conejo”. Don’t miss it. In addition to the new HVAC sys- We look forward to seeing you soon. PAGE 2 VOLUME 2021 ISSUE 1 Director Jana Goldsworthy I had the opportunity to play Saturday, Feb 20, with QR code signage adding local historical celebrity Mabel multimedia enhancement via smart phone to our Stark, the world’s first female exhibits, updated rest rooms, and other property tiger trainer, during our recent improvements. Our beloved 200-year-old oak tree, holiday event, and will reprise ( pictured on page one) will be removed for safety that role for our March “live” purposes in early February with a native blessing radio show. Mabel inspired given by “Spirit Hawk” Alan Salazar, which will others to do things that have be filmed and compiled with footage featuring never been done before, and I Fred Nuesca discussing the importance of oak feel like we are all having to trees to the Chumash and our community. Be sure do that right now, trying to to visit the museum’s Emporium to purchase or- find creative solutions to naments, coasters, candle logs, and other nostalgic problems we don’t fully under- items Gary Pederson and other volunteers will be stand, within parameters that making from the oak tree’s beautiful limbs. A 04 are constantly changing and beyond our control. year young replacement oak will be planted, rep- The winds of change (literally at 50 mph locally!) resenting new beginnings and plans are in the were upon us at the end of January with the inaugu- works regarding how to make the best use of the ration of a new President, along with the first woman area the old oak tree occupied. We invite you to Vice President. There has certainly been a great deal contribute to the Heritage Oak Renewal Project to of interesting history in the making, and the muse- re-beautify and transform this central site for on- um’s 2020 focus on the achievements of Conejo Val- going, enjoyable use. This project is one of several ley women, well-received suffrage exhibit, celebrating we hope to complete in 2021, most of which re- one hundred years of women’s right to vote, and the quire significant donations as matching funds Stage Lines article on the 1918-20 Spanish Flu pan- from our patrons and in-kind contributions from demic, helps put these more recent historical develop- our volunteers. Please inquire how you can help. ments in perspective. In March, The Governor’s Stay at Home order cut our holi- to celebrate day festivities short, just when the museum had Women’s His- made “front page news” in the Acorn with our Un- tory month, wrap the Conejo Valley event. We have a second we will be re- chance to celebrate when the Chinese Year of the Ox airing our La- begins on February 12. Fittingly, the ox represents dies of the hard work and perseverance, which will definitely be Conejo Old- required as we and our local community strive to re- time Radio cover. We encourage everyone to support local busi- Show nesses, and stay safe while taking advantage of the (pictured above), which few people had the oppor- wonderful things our valley has to offer. tunity to see before we had to close our holiday While it is predicted that as many as 40 percent of event. This live performance, featuring eight California’s small museums may not reopen following historical women of the Conejo Valley telling their the pandemic, the Stagecoach Inn has found innova- stories, will take place on the grand porch of the tive ways to continue operations and has had record Stagecoach Inn, before a safely socially-distanced membership receipts for 2020/2021. These develop- audience, on selected Saturdays at 2:00 pm, ments helped to partially offset the loss of our major during our normal operating hours 1-4:00 PM. revenue streams, school tours, and weddings. We are The show will be included in your $5 admission. still in a very precarious financial situation, but are For those still preferring to stick close to home, six working hard to preserve and share the stories of our Stagecoach Inn Museum Virtual Tours have now past, and gratefully seek your continued support of been completed, including our latest release, The our programs. Meanwhile, we continue to encourage Adobe. A link can be found on page seven of this bookings of weddings, corporate events, filmmaking issue. Look for others on the Stagecoach Inn and other facility uses. Museum YouTube channel and on our website. We plan to reopen as an “outdoor museum” on Stay healthy, be safe, and please visit soon. VOLUME 2021 ISSUE 1 Historical Happenings Carol Anderson, Curator of History Dr. Cyril Anderson, the First Director of not for the aggrandizement of the society or for its mem- the Stagecoach Inn Museum bers. If I and our members, who have sweated through hundreds of hours of work, worry and frustrations in this I had heard and project were doing it only for ourselves, we would be read that Dr. Cyril locked up as crazy people. Anderson was an ad- “This is both an apology and an attempt to set in mirable man, a good words our basic philosophy and the reasons why we con- worker, and recruited sider this effort important to the community. We believe by Dr. Michael that it is important, especially for children, to understand Hagopian, the first that human life has a continuity from generation to gen- President of the eration, that it is helpful to the stability of everyone to CVHS. He didn’t feel that they are intimately bound not only to the pre- have a background in sent but also to the past and future in a continuous chain, museum work, being a and that their roots of existence lie far deeper than the retired U.S. Army and shallow roots in the present. We believe that when young Veterans Hospital people understand this, they feel that they belong, that physician. In this there is no generation gap, and that the path ahead has writing of his letter to already been scouted and need not appear so fearful. We the editor of the News-Chronicle, we can see how believe that young people can understand this better valuable he was in working with people to create the when they can see and study the artifacts and cultural Stagecoach Inn Museum. Think back to 1967 when patterns of the past, can speculate about the life that has the original building had been moved up the hill gone on before, and about the relationships between the and was being restored.