Exhibits and Lectures

The Forward Club

As the archivist for the Lemon Grove Historical Society, I had an opportunity to celebrate the long running women's club in Lemon Grove, originally called the Forward Club.  Their clubhouse still stands, and in our archives I found the date of the first meeting there. I helped to organize a celebration held in the historic clubhouse exactly 100 years since the first meeting, May 12, 2022.  At this event I gave a lecture about the history of the club based on the archival collection. I later presented a poster about the experience at the Society of California Archivists annual general meeting in April 2023. I designed and installed an exhibit in the Lemon Grove Parsonage Museum about the history of the club in June of 2023.

Josephine Waite: Lemon Grove Farm Girl

The Lemon Grove Historical Society archive has the Waite Family Papers, which includes a collection of letters that Josephine wrote to her father in 1919-1920. I wrote a research paper focused on the letters of Josephine, and in October 2024 gave a lecture on the same topic. I also created a display and shared photos and letters from the Waite Family papers at a Women's History Fair at the San Diego History Center in March 2025.

The Lemon Grove Review: A California Revealed Project

The Lemon Grove Review is our hometown newspaper that ran from 1948-1999. It chronicles the growth of our small town, and the Lemon Grove Historical Society has the only known copies of this incredible resource. Through the California Revealed Grant program, I have worked with others to get this newspaper digitized and searchable online. I gave a lecture about the project with Cynthia Doyle in January of 2024. I also installed a small exhibit in the Lemon Grove Parsonage Museum about the newspaper's history and our digitization project.

Merritt Woodcraft Exhibit

This is a small exhibit I based on a collection donated to the Lemon Grove Historical Society in 2024. This exhibit highlights the life and work of a local wood worker, J.G. Merritt.

Archive Treasures of the Lemon Grove Historical Society

This was a one day special exhibit on October 9, 2021 in conjunction with the Treganza Heritage Park naming celebration. I wanted the community to know a little but of what we had in the Lemon Grove Historical Society archives, so I pulled out highlights from different collections, wrote some text about the items, and set them out on tables in the Lee House. Later I took the same material and created a History Alive lecture, which I gave on February 3, 2022