Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden To Host Acorn Festival

From Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden:

CLAREMONT, CA - As Thanksgiving approaches, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is hosting their 13th annual Acorn Festival on Saturday, November 20. The festival celebrates Native-American traditions through song, dance, arts, crafts and food.
The event, which is free with garden admission, will kick off at 11 a.m.and run until 3 p.m.

Entertainment will include Native-American dancers in traditional regalia and flutist Steve Rushingwind.

The goal of the event is to teach the history of acorns, and their importance to the area's indigenous people such as the Tongya, Cahuillo and Serrano tribes, and how they were turned from uneatable to a food-source staple.

The garden has several varieties of oak trees on site, and will be using most acorns from those trees for activities during the family-friendly event, which will feature several crafts such as tools, toys, basket weaving, pictographs and shell necklaces for the children.

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