During this season of giving thanks, we wish to express our gratitude to everyone who made "A Taste of History" a successful and truly enjoyable event.
The festive afternoon included our De Anza friends enjoying gourmet food with local wines and tours of our historic corridor buildings, including the new East Cottage and renovated Baldwin Winery.
Thank you to the De Anza Commission and President Brian Murphy for sponsoring this event. We raised more than $13,000 to support student and campus projects that will preserve, document and share our local history.
At the fore is our Silicon Valley Documentation Project (Oral History Project) which links our students directly with De Anza's surrounding communities and helps them and their instructors to capture the stories of people who have made our lives rich with meaning and purpose, but may not otherwise be widely known.
Support for this project allows us to access new technology that will greatly enhance our students' ability to learn how to do this most important work, including the development of a digital repository and interactive mapping databases.
Would you like to make a donation for this program? Go to Give Now and include Silicon Valley Documentation Project in the Program Other field on the donation form.
Sunken Garden Project
Please join us on May 19, 2012 for a special appreciation event for “Taste of History” donors and California History Center supporters.
Celebrate the unveiling of the new Sunken Garden during an afternoon with novelist and professor Lawrence Coates of Bowling Green University, Ohio in celebration of the release of his latest work — The Garden of the World.
Check out the Historic Review Committeesite plan presentation (PDF 20 MB) for a preview of how the Sunken Garden will look when finished. Slides include concept drawings and photographs of updated fixtures and native plants planned for the garden.
Plan to come back for a visit through the new Sunken Garden upon its completion in spring 2012.
The festive afternoon included our De Anza friends enjoying gourmet food with local wines and tours of our historic corridor buildings, including the new East Cottage and renovated Baldwin Winery.
