The Peninsula Italian-American Social Club - Irene O'Connell 6/29

Article Source: San Bruno CA Vice Mayor Irene O'Connell

The Peninsula Italian-American Social Club has elected me to be "Queen Isabella" for this year. It is quite an honor. I had to be nominated by a club member who thought I had done an outstanding job serving my community. I've been asked to be part of the celebration to commemorate the opening of the redone immigration area of the museum. It should be an interesting time, I'll be in costume!.

FREE EVENT DESCRIPTION

Permanent Exhibit Gallery Opening:

Land of Opportunity: The Immigrant Experience in San Mateo County Saturday, June 29, 2019, noon until 3:30 p.m.

The San Mateo County History Museum announces the re-opening of its permanent exhibit gallery: Land of Opportunity: The Immigrant Experience in San Mateo County. The gallery has undergone an extensive renovation and will open to the public for the' first time at noon on Saturday, June 29 with a public celebration that will last until 3:30 p.m. This unveiling will be a FREE event.

A committee with representatives from many of the cultures portrayed in the Gallery has assisted museum staff create the new exhibits and is helping to organize the celebration.

Entertainment in the Museum's rotunda will include:

12:15 Drum Revolution Japanese Taiko Drums

1:00 Accordion music from the Peninsula Italian American Social Club 1:30 Casa Circulo Cultural traditional Mexican dancers

2:00 Irish fiddler Ayden Graham

2:30 Filipino Kulintang music by Conrad Benedicto and his students

12:00-3:00 The Peninsula Italian American Social Club will demonstrate and organize Bocce Ball games in the Museum's historic Courtroom "A"

Food and drink will include:

Lemonade, sweet tea and punch from the African American community Irish Soda Bread

Spring Rolls from the Organization of Chinese Americans

A taste of food from the Peninsula Italian American Social Club

New components of the Gallery will include stories about the migration of people from other states - - not just other countries. This enables the Museum to include African American accounts from their "Great Migration" out of the South between World War I and 1970. A new computer kiosk entitled "Tell Us Your Story" will allow all visitors to the Museum the opportunity to add their own family's experience about coming to California to the exhibition. Another kiosk will act to document discrimination on the Peninsula.

Major funding for the renovation came from San Mateo County (a Measure K grant through Supervisor Warren Slocum), the Bothin Foundation and Umang and Ruth Gupta.

The San Mateo County History Museum is located at 2200 Broadway within the 109-year-old "Old Courthouse" in Redwood City. It features exhibits related to the use of natural resources, suburban development, ethnic experience and entrepreneurial achievement on the Peninsula from the time of the Ohlone Indian through today. The Museum is open every day except Monday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information go to www.historysmc.org or call 650-299-0104.

For more information contact Mitch Postel, mitch@historysmc.org or 650-299-0104

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Robert Riechel

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