Month: May 2013
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Celebrating the Sempervirens story — more than 100 years of conservation
San Jose, CA – May 6, 2013 On May 18, 1900 the Sempervirens Club was founded by photographer and painter Andrew Putnam Hill of San Jose to save the old-growth redwoods in the Santa Cruz mountains. The Sempervirens were pioneers in the conservation movement, and the home of Andrew and Florence Hill is now located…
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Bear in Mind: The Story of the California Grizzly
San José, CA – May 7, 2013 — Does a bear walk through the woods? We don’t know, but the California Grizzly will be touring through History San José beginning in May. Opening to the public on Sunday, May 25 at the Leonard & David McKay Gallery at the Pasetta House in History Park, the…
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San Jose’s first piano
(Part of our “From the Piano Bench” series, reprints from the San Jose Historical Museum newsletter archives) By Anne-Louise Heigho An article in the San Jose Mercury of December 22, 1941, traces the history of the first piano in San Jose: it was a rosewood square grand, made by an Albany builder named Burns in…
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