Ernie Hovard
CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Ernie is still collecting Indian and western lore after 60 years!
PROJECTS: Ernie is extending an open invitation to all Westerners to visit his home and see his collection (see photo).
RECENT PRESENTATIONS: Several individuals and groups have come to see his house and collection.
Abe Hoffman
CURRENTLY WORKING ON: A book entitled From Dead Sea to Environmental Treasure: A History of Mono Lake, to be published by the University of New Mexico Press.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: “Mining in California’s Mono Basin Region,” which was published in the California Territorial Quarterly for Fall, 2012.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS: A talk entitled “Boyle Heights Memories,” given to the Los Angeles City Historical Society on February 22, 2013.
CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Loren is continuing to write poetry and refining his magic.
NEEDS INFORMATION ON/FOR: Would like to hear from any Westerners who may be interested in his collection of western magazines, including True West, Frontier Times, and others. Some of these date back over 40 years!
RECENT PRESENTATIONS: He has written several articles for the Tombstone Epitaph, the Branding Iron, and others. In addition, many other articles have appeared in The Kansas Cowboy (where Loren is member #1159, known as the “Kansas Kid).
OTHER: Loren was born in Woodbine, KS and moved to Ontario, CA in 1941. He and his wife Betty were married in 1947 and they have 2 sons, 5 grandchildren, and 2 great-granddaughters. Loren worked for the Southern California Gas Company from 1947 to 1984 when he retired as District Manager for the Covina area. Since that time, he has held many other positions, some paid, some volunteer. He has also been named the “Honorary Mayor of Wrightwood!”
Sid Gally
CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Many things related to the greater Pasadena area. Sid is a volunteer at the Pasadena Museum of History and a columnist for the Pasadena Star-News.
NEEDS INFORMATION ON/FOR: His column entitled “Past on Parade,” which appears in the Pasadena Star-News. Sid is always seeking out information (documents, photos, etc.) on the history of Pasadena
RECENT PRESENTATIONS: He has done presentations on Professor Thaddeus Lowe and his Civil War ballooning adventures, gas manufacturing, and of course the mountain railway. In addition, Sid has developed a talk on five famous Pasadena residents and their role in the development of Santa Catalina Island and a talk on ten unusual women he’s discovered in his research in the area. The talk on Pasadena residents and their role in Santa Catalina Island has been given to the Westerners.
Roundup: July 9, 2014
Almansor Court – 700 S. Almansor, Alhambra, CA.
Social Hour: 5:00 PM
Dinner: 6:00 PM
Speaker: Kiara Maria Vigil
Subject: Native Americans and Film and her first book “North American Indian Intellectuals and the American Imagination, 1880-1930”
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Westerners has a special speaker this month! in collaboration with the Autry Museum. It will be an excellent talk regarding Native Americans and Film. Our 2014 Autry Fellow is Dr. Kiara Maria Vigil, an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her research and teaching has centered on Native American history and literature.
She is currently completing research for her first book, “North American Indian Intellectuals and the American Imagination, 1880-1930”, now under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Her time at the Autry has enabled her to research this project tentatively titled “Natives in Transit: Indian Entertainment, Urban Life, and Activism”, which builds on a study of Indian actors, beginning in the 1930s. Her book examines the cultural production of four prominent Indian intellectuals: Charles Eastman, Carolos Montezuma, Gertrude Bonnin, and Luther Standing Bear, within the shifiting social and political milieu of the early twentieth century.
Building on the research from her current book project, and specifically on material related to Luther Standing Bear’s career as a writer and film actor living in Los Angeles during the 1930s, Dr. Vigil’s talk will discuss the archival materials and other resources available at the Autry National Center that speak to the lives and cultural work of Native Americans in Southern California from the 1930s onward, thereby highlighting the social, economic and political ramifications of Native people as cultural workers in America.
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Paul McClure
Deputy Sheriff
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