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Begin your holiday season at Long Beach’s historic home. Tour the decorated adobe with candlelight throughout. Converse with costumed docents. Stroll the grounds listening to holiday music while sipping hot cider. Browse the Museum Shop to find unique holiday gifts and view the current exhibition “Then & Now”. For more information, call (562)206-2040 or email Rancho@RanchoLosCerritos.org.[…]

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Earth Day takes place every year on April 22 and it marks the anniversary of the movement that started in 1970.  In the decades leading up to the first Earth Day, Americans were consuming vast amounts of leaded gas, didn’t care about industry issues such as smoke and sludge being aired into our communities and[…]

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The foreman makes a pinata with two children while a woman holding a guitar watches

Historic figures will enliven Rancho Los Cerritos as they demonstrate holiday traditions from the 1840s through the 1930s. In the courtyard, costumed interpreters will engage with visitors and share information about the activities that are happening in the exhibit rooms. Warm seasonal beverages and live holiday music will complete the festivities (Covid-19 protocols permitting). The[…]

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The foreman makes a pinata with two children while a woman holding a guitar watches

Historic figures will enliven Rancho Los Cerritos as they demonstrate holiday traditions from the 1840s through the 1930s. In the courtyard, costumed interpreters will engage with visitors and share information about the activities that are happening in the exhibit rooms. Warm seasonal beverages and live holiday music will complete the festivities (Covid-19 protocols permitting). The[…]

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The foreman makes a pinata with two children while a woman holding a guitar watches

Historic figures will enliven Rancho Los Cerritos as they demonstrate holiday traditions from the 1840s through the 1930s. In the courtyard, costumed interpreters will engage with visitors and share information about the activities that are happening in the exhibit rooms. Warm seasonal beverages and live holiday music will complete the festivities (Covid-19 protocols permitting). The[…]

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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI): How Chinese women were erased from history. For Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, we want to also acknowledge the Chinese women that are missing from our history. When talking about the past, it is important to acknowledge what is there but also what is missing and[…]

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Rancho Los Cerritos hosts Christmas Candlelight Tours on Saturday, December 14, 2019. (Image is of RLC adobe gate to enter to courtyard with lantern lit)

  Experience a century of holiday traditions, as you stroll the Rancho by candlelight and encounter costumed characters from the Rancho’s colorful past preparing for the holidays. Guided tours start every 15 minutes and last approximately 45 minutes, concluding with festive holiday music and treats in the backyard. $20 general admission $15 for members. Members,[…]

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On display from October through Early December 2019 is the latest special exhibit in the library case in commemoration of the 175th anniversary of the adobe's construction (built in 1844) and specifically the 1930s Bixby remodel. With the exhibit is Brice Burtness, RLC’s Fall 2019 Creative Long Beach intern (funded by the Arts Council for Long Beach), who researched and installed this exhibit.

This October, Rancho Los Cerritos installed the third in a series of special exhibits in the library display case that commemorates the demisemiseptcentennial. (175th anniversary) of the adobe’s construction (built in 1844). This latest display focuses on the remodel of the adobe during the 1930s. Brice Burtness (pictured with the exhibit), RLC’s Fall 2019 Creative Long Beach intern[…]

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Cutting the RLC 175th birthday cake are (L-R): Rick Alsagoff (board member), Barbara Blackwell (board member), Susan Wise (board chair), Craig Carter (board member), Councilmember Al Austin, Jean Bixby Smith (board member), and Alison Bruesehoff (Executive Director). (Photo taken by Howard Freshman) A formal proclamation was also presented to RLC during this event by Councilmember Austin.

We celebrated the 175th Anniversary of our historic adobe last Saturday, September 28th, and we even had a proper birthday cake to commemorate the occasion! Cutting the RLC 175th birthday cake are (L-R): Rick Alsagoff (board member), Barbara Bixby Blackwell (board member), Susan Wise (board chair), Craig Carter (board member), Councilmember Al Austin, Jean Bixby[…]

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