Big Bear Historical Museum Opens for the Season on Saturday; Historical Society to Celebrate 103rd Anna Crain Day on Monday
May 22, 2009 by Catherine Sandstrom
Filed under Current News, Recreation, Schools
The museum's blacksmith shop is manned by volunteers Don Schaub and Arizona Al.
The only museum in the San Bernardino mountains is Big Bear Valley’s local treasure, the Big Bear Historical Museum, which is packed with treasures and artifacts from our area’s gold mining history (including a working stamp mill), the Serrano Indians, the fox farming industry, moviemaking and more. The Big Bear Historical Museum opens for the season tomorrow, May 23, and through October’s first weekend, will be open from 10am to 4pm on Saturdays, Sundays, Wednesdays, and holiday Mondays—and at an admission price of just $3 for adults, and free for accompanying children. Over the winter season, the Big Bear Valley Historical Society was not hibernating, but moving some historic buildings to their now permanent site off Greenway Drive in Big Bear City; new additions include the 1920s Juniper Point cabin (once a market and post office) and, from Meadow Park, the Boy Scout cabin, which dates to somewhere between 1900-1918. The museum also features the original Mt. Doble schoolhouse, which dates back to 1901, and artifacts from schoolmarm Anna Crain. On Monday, the Big Bear Valley Historical Society will take a field trip in celebration of the 103rd Anna Crain Day, to commemorate when in 1906, on the weekend that has since become Memorial Day, Crain honored Big Bear pioneers with a service at the Old Doble Cemetery. The Historical Society invites all to join them for Anna Crain Day, which launches with a caravan from the museum at 7:45am. For more information, you can visit the website of the Big Bear Valley Historical Society.
Museum curator Kim Sweet leads a field trip in the Mt. Doble schoolhouse, which was used in the Big Bear Valley as early as 1901.
Related posts:
- Historical Museum Open for Labor Day; Big Bear Valley Historical Society Meets at DC on Wednesday
- Historic Juniper Point Cabin to Make the Move to the Historical Museum in Big Bear City
- Opening Day at the Big Bear Historical Museum
- Just 80+ Years–And One Week–Later, Historic Cabin Moves from Juniper Point to Big Bear City
- State Schools Superintendent Offers Top 10 Tips for Keeping Kids Engaged and Learning During the Summer; Historical Museum Open Weekends and Wednesdays
After graduating from Big Bear High School, Catherine moved to Los Angeles to attend Loyola Marymount University. In her 20 years off the mountain, most recently in Manhattan Beach, Catherine's career included publishing, broadcasting, public relations and public eduction; she joined the KBHR team as News Director in April 2007.
