The Perristorian - Perris Valley Historical Museum
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The Perristorian - Perris Valley Historical Museum
T h e Pe r r i st o r i a n Third Quarter 2014 Perris Valley Historical Museum Perris Valley Historical Archives In this issue: Fun Times at the 14th Annual Silent Auction and socializing, delicious food and wine, and after everyone’s shopping Everyone enjoyed the delicious meal. 14th The Annual Silent Auction came home this year to the Perris Santa Fe Depot Gardens. What a nice venue, if we do say so ourselves. Everyone had an opportunity to peruse the museum displays and rummage around in the gift shop during the course of the evening. Outside, in beautiful late summer weather, our guests had many items to look over and bid on. There were tickets, coupons, experiences, handmade items, jewelry, art, antiques and holiday goodies – a little something for everyone. There 951-657-0274 was Valley Heritage Fund,‖ to ensure that our history is not forgotten. Officers & Directors 1 PVHM in the 21st Century 2 2 Shopping at 2 Email 2 Technology vs Human Touch 2 Panel Displays Complete 3 Passport to Perris 3 Clampers Coming to Town 3 Do you know your history? 4 Upcoming Events 5 So Cal Fair 5 How did you do? 5 Dues & Don’ts 6 Officers President……….…...Quinn Hawley 1st Vice President…...Bill Hulstrom 2nd Vice President……...Ann Motte Secretary……………...Mae Minnich Treasurer…….…..Dennise Manning Thanks again and see you next year! Directors Mike Behrens Kay Busch Cindy Chambers Katie Keyes Vincent Magana Midgie Parker Marie Spradlin conversation www.perrismuseum.com 1 us on Facebook genes kicked in, the bidding came to a close. Another great fundraising event; the Museum walked away with over $5,000. As always, our proceeds will be deposited to our endowment, the ―Perris The PVHM thanks Barry Busch for his amazing grilling talents, the volunteers for their tasteful dishes, the docents for another superior job as wait staff, and most importantly our members and friends for attending. Silent Auction [email protected] Like us on Facebook The Perristorian Third Quarter 2014 The PVHM in the Twenty-first Century Let’s Go Shopping! Do you shop on Amazon.com? The Perris Valley Historical Museum is now part of the AmazonSmile program. Now it can be simple and automatic for you to support the PVHM whenever you shop online at Amazon. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you will find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a half a percent of the purchase price to the PVHM. To shop at AmazonSmile simply go to smile.amazon.com from your web browser on your computer or mobile device. You can use the same account on Amazon.com and AmazonSmile. On your first visit to AmazonSmile, you need to select us as your charitable organization before you begin shopping. Your selection will be remembered so that every eligible purchase you make on AmazonSmile will result in a donation to the Perris Valley Historical Museum. This is an easy way for you to support the PVHM whenever you shop online. Thank you. We are now on social media. So… Like us on Facebook Email Would you like to receive your newsletter by email? Would you like to get email updates on what the PVHM is doing? Reminders of special events coming up? Please help us update our email database so that we can continue to move forward in the twentyfirst century and be able to communicate quickly with our members. Don’t worry, we will always have a hard-copy newsletter available to our members that do not have email or prefer it in paper form, however, by using less paper, ink and postage we can redirect those funds to running the museum and archives, ensuring that our history continues to be protected and shared with future generations. Drop us a line, give us a call or email us with your email address and we will update our records. Thank you again. [email protected] Technology vs The Human Touch While we are excited to be participating in the technological age of the 21st Century, it still takes many human helpers to keep the PVHM going strong. There are tours to give, information to record, meetings to attend, bookkeeping to be done, artifacts to be managed, fundraising, grant writing, collecting, archiving, exhibits to build, research to be done….we could go on and on. Please keep in touch through social media, and participate in any way that you enjoy and are comfortable with. It takes a village...and a computer, and technology, and interaction, and networking, and... 2 The Perristorian Perris Centennial Displays - A Huge Success Third Quarter 2014 As some of you know, our Perris Centennial Panel Exhibits have been rotating through the Perris and Val Verde Elementary Schools and some local businesses this year. With that project complete, the panels have come home to rest in our collections. Passport to Perris In keeping with our Passport to Perris program (a private-public partnership promoting tourism in the city,) some of our directors joined Perris supporters from the City, the Chamber of Commerce, and local businesses on a day out (by limosine, no less) to show off local entertainment landmarks to representatives of ―Discover IE,‖ a non-profit agency promoting travel and tourism. The group stopped in at City Hall, the Orange Empire Railway Museum, and the Motte Historical Museum. They visited Big League Dreams Sports Complex, Drop Zone Aquatics Center and Perris Auto Speedway. Lunch at the Bomb Shelter was combined with a tour of Skydive Perris and the Windtunnel. We believe that this energetic group was able to show our guests some history, culture and the variety of places and On the track at Perris Auto Speedway activities that Perris has to offer. During the school year teachers used the panels as a tool for teaching their students and the general public was exposed to their history at such businesses as Lowe’s, NPG Asphalt, Big League Dreams, Perris Auto Speedway, and Ritchie Bros. Some people even found images of relatives and information about their families in the displays. That was exciting! We would like to sincerely thank Dan Yost, of Powerflow Communications and representatives from the businesses mentioned above for getting the displays set up and rotated through all of the locations over the last school year. The project was well received and inquiries have been made about its coming back. Maybe we should do it again – one can always use a refresher course. Perhaps this will lead into our town being featured online as a ―destination‖ for the Golden State. We certainly think there is a lot to attract visitors to our little ―neck of the woods.‖ “Clampers” coming to Perris Valley A fraternal organization dedicated to the study and preservation of the heritage of the American West, especially the history of the Mother Lode and gold mining regions of the area. brother is a brother for life and members have many times come to the aid of brothers, their widows and orphans. The ECV has also been responsible for placing historic plaques throughout the West, often recognizing such edifices as bordellos and saloons – hey, it is all history. Founded in 1849 and coming to California in 1851, with its only purpose to initiate new members, E Clampus Vitus (ECV) was most likely born out of a need for levity and escape from the harsh conditions of prospecting for gold in those early years. Its history is steeped in mythology but perhaps we could call it the layman’s secret society, parodying Freemasons, Oddfellows and the like. Titles such as ―Supreme Grand Humbug, Clampatriarch, and Grand Imperturbable Hangman,‖ explains their credo that ―every member is an officer and all officers are of equal indignity.‖ What does the name E Clampus Vitus mean, you ask? That is the only true secret this ―secret society‖ has. Its meaning has been lost to history and no living member knows the answer to that question. Nevertheless, 200 ―clampers‖ from the Billy Holcomb Chapter of this interesting group will be visiting Perris Valley next year. We will be welcoming them and hope that they enjoy learning a little about our piece of California history. Despite the humor and rowdiness of ECV, the members do take their brotherhood seriously. A 3 The Perristorian Third Quarter 2014 Do You Know Your Perris History? Take this quiz and see how you fare. that overlooks Perris, made their living as: Go ahead – no one is looking. a) stockbrokers b) veterinarians c) service station owners d) teachers 1. Prior to Spanish contact, the local people of what is now known as Perris Valley called themselves: a) Malki b) Cahuilla c) Puyumkowitchum 9. In 1887, the first Christian church to come to Perris was: d) Luiseno a) The German Methodist Episcopal Church b) First Baptist Church c) Menno-nite Brethren in Christ Church d) First Congregational Church 2. In the early 1800’s, the driving force that brought people to California was: a) the missions b) gold c) deep sea fishing d) oil 10. From the late 1920’s through the 1960’s, potato farming drove the valley’s livelihood. During Potato Festival each year, a larger than life figure, ―Potato Pete,‖ lined ―D‖ Street in downtown Perris. He was named for: 3. Pinacate (the small settlement established prior to the Perris of today) is a Nahuatl word meaning: a) stinkbug b) watering hole c) mountain shadow d) bright star a) Pete Peterson b) Pete Eller c) Pete Seeger d) Peter Pan 4. In late 1885 and early 1886, the town of Perris was planned and surveyed by: a) Leman D. Reynolds 11. Who was the youngest man elected to the position of Mayor for the City of Perris? b) Henry W. Akin c) Fred T. Perris d) E. Dexter a) Bob Warren b) Daryl Busch c) Fred T. Perris d) A. W. Hook 5. During WWII the Japanese cut off our access to rubber in Southeast Asia. Perris farmers did their part by growing what crop to replace rubber with latex? a) Rye b) Guava c) Guayule 12. OERM is the acronym for: a) Original East Riverside Museum b) Old English Radial Motors c) Orange Empire Railway Museum d) O’Reilly Educational Reading Mission d) Mint 6. What Hollywood mogul raised racehorses in Perris in the 1940’s? a) Louis B. Mayer b) Samuel Goldwyn c) Lionel Barrymore d) Jack Warner 13. The Perris Valley Airport is famous for: a) Renting historic airplanes to the film industry b) Skydiving c) Reenacting WWII aerial fight scenes d) Hot Air ballooning 7. The City of Perris was incorporated in: a)1892 b)1909 c) 1911 d) 1922. How did you do? - answers on page 5. 8. The Ragsdale’s, the builders of the iconic rock house 4 The Perristorian Third Quarter 2014 Southern California Fair October 4 through 12 The PVHM will be acting as superintendant of the Fine Arts and Photography Exhibits this year. Come see the interesting and beautiful offerings on display in Harrison Hall. (see article below) Haunted Museum Halloween—October 31 3:30-5:30 PM Perris Santa Fe Depot—4th & ―D‖ Streets Before ―trick or treating,‖ let the kids join us for a costume contest, kids activities, and a scary graveyard! Bazaar @ the Perris Depot Sunday, November Antiques—Collectables—Anything & Everything City of Perris and Chamber of Commerce Christmas Saturday, December 13 Christmas Revisited Join us. Parade Everyone loves a Christmas Parade. We will be there—will you? December 13 Open House—all day 120 W. 4th Street (between C & D Streets) A Victorian Affair in the Victorian Perris Santa Fe Depot… experience a bit of what it was like in the late 1800’s. Hot cider and cookies among Victorian inspired decorations. Please join us. A Concise History of the Southern California Fair The Southern California Fair has passed through many incarnations since its inception in 1913. From the Riverside County Fair, held at the Chemawa Park, it became the Southern California Fair in 1918. In 1927 it became a festival sponsored by the 46th District Agricultural Association. From 1936 to 1942 the 46thDAA sponsored a Turkey Show in Hemet. The Farmers Fair and the Farmers Fair and Expo were held in Hemet until 1987, when it moved to its current location at the Lake Perris Fairgrounds and settled on the name Southern California Fair, again. all ages. The PVHM will be participating this year as Superintendant of the Fine Arts and Photography exhibits on display in Harrison Hall. Please stop by and see the creative and inspired items submitted by our clever citizens. We hope to see you there. Whatever the name, it has proven to be a staple for families in our community for over a hundred years. It is exciting yet wholesome entertainment for 10—b) Pete Eller 11—a) Bob Warren 5—c) Guayule 6—a) Louis B. Mayer History Quiz Answers (from page 4) 12—c) Orange Empire Railway Museum 7—c) 1911 13—b) skydiving. 8—d) First Congregational Church 1—c/ Puyumkowitchum 5 2—b) gold 9—c) service station owners 3—a) stinkbug 4—d) E. Dexter P O BOX 343, PERRIS CA 92572 PERRIS VALLEY HISTORICAL ARCHIVES PERRIS VALLEY HISTORICAL MUSEUM Dues & Don’ts Dues: please pay your dues. Don’t: eat yellow snow. Please join us….MEMBERSHIP FORM Individual $15.00/year Individual Lifetime $100.00 Family $25.00/year Family Lifetime $100.00 Business $50.00/year Business Lifetime $300.00 Non-Profit $30.00/year Non-Profit Lifetime $300.00 Yes, I’d like to volunteer to be a docent. Name ___________________________________ Phone ___________________________ Yes, I’d like to volunteer to help in the archives. 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