by News Staff | Feb 1, 2018 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Style, What Is It Good For? An Overview of the Rock Art of California, the Great Basin, and the Southwest There are probably tens of thousands of rock art sites in Western North America and as many as a million individual panels. Researchers have used an...
by News Staff | Dec 17, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release 2018 Museum Calendar, On the Road to the High Sierra, now available. After losing the Water War to Los Angeles and then feeling the brunt of the Great Depression, the Eastern Sierra turned to tourism to invigorate its economy in the 1920s and 1930s....
by News Staff | Jul 19, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Presentation at the Eastern California Museum focuses on ‘California’s Deadliest Earthquakes’ California is unique for many reasons, but its history of one-of-a-kind, deadly earthquakes is a feature that virtually every resident has either experienced or...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Press release Several hundred people gathered on the grounds of the Eastern California Museum Monday, July 3, for the dedication of the Larry Peckham Memorial Engine House, the new permanent home of the fully restored Union Pacific Engine 18, The Slim Princess. The...
by News Staff | Jun 21, 2017 | Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories
Slim Princess Locomotive Moves to New Home at the Eastern California Museum By Jon Klusmire – Eastern California Museum The Slim Princess locomotive was on the road, and the sight of a full-size steam locomotive rolling down US 395 drew quite a crowd. The fully...