Local journalist Crystal Tai, provides YouTube coverage of Los Altos History Museum’s inaugural Apricot STEM Fair. Demonstrations included: extracting the DNA of apricots with 23andMe, drying apricots, cutting of cots, apricot tastings and more …view here
The Mercury News, 21 Jun 2018, by Vicki Larson Lisa Prince Newman grew up in a Garden of Eden, surrounded by vineyards, pastures and orchards, on a 2-plus-acre property with just about every kind of tree imaginable, from walnut to kumquat to apple to apricot. It was magical. A different kind of magic happens in her once-pastoral home now called…
Los Altos Town Crier, May 2, 2018, written by Los Altos Town Crier Staff The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last month to fund the renovation and rehabilitation of the 101-year-old Spagnoli Tank House at the Los Altos History Museum. “Our Valley rightfully takes pride in its 21st-century role as a technology and thought leader, but there’s…
Los Altos Town Crier: May 2, 2018, by Robin Chapman Historical artifacts travel a curious road as they move from the closets of the living to the glass cases of museums. “These objects are links between past and present,” said retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. James Schear, who spoke at a recent ceremony at the Moffett Historical Society Museum. The…
Los Altos Town Crier: March 28, 2018, by Grace Hase, Staff Writer/graceh@latc.com For Ayindé Rudolph, the solution to citizenship for the nearly 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States is creating pathways. The Mountain View Whisman School District superintendent was one of four speakers at last week’s Los Altos History Museum-sponsored immigration panel that also included Mary Dutcher, an…
A new exhibition and program at the Los Altos History Museum takes a multidisciplinary approach to exploring the beauty and wonder of the pacific Flyway. The environmental art exhibition surrounds viewers with multimedia works that also expose the plight of Californias’s feathered wanderers. See headline feature here and read the full article here.
