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R.H. Dana 200-Year Birthday Fetes Planned in Dana Point and San Juan Capistrano

by Dana Point Times
August 6, 2015 12:28PM
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R.H. Dana 200-Year Birthday Fetes Planned in Dana Point and San Juan Capistrano

The Dana Point Historical Society is hosting a celebration at the Ocean Institute dockside aboard the brig Pilgrim to commemorate the 200th birthday of the city’s namesake, Richard Henry Dana. Photo: Andrea Swayne

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The Dana Point Historical Society is hosting a celebration at the Ocean Institute dockside aboard the brig Pilgrim to commemorate the 200th birthday of the city’s namesake, Richard Henry Dana. Photo: Andrea Swayne
The Dana Point Historical Society is hosting a celebration at the Ocean Institute dockside aboard the brig Pilgrim to commemorate the 200th birthday of the city’s namesake, Richard Henry Dana. Photo: Andrea Swayne

By Alison Shea and Andrea Swayne

Dana Point and San Juan Capistrano have planned bicentennial celebrations for Saturday in honor of Richard Henry Dana Jr., the author of Two Years Before the Mast and Dana Point’s namesake.

Dana Point Historical Society

The Dana Point Historical Society is holding a special event on Saturday, Aug. 1 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the brig Pilgrim at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point to celebrate Dana’s 200th birthday.

The celebration will include appetizers, grog and other refreshments, music and a program that will feature excerpts from Dana’s 1915 centenary birthday program presented at Harvard University including: “Dana as a Man of Letters” “Dana as an Antislavery Leader,” and “Dana as a Lawyer and Citizen.” As part of the musical entertainment, Bill Dempsey will be singing sea shanties. The event will end with a special tribute to Dana by Dr. Milt McMenamin.

Seats aboard the Pilgrim and spots in the pre-event reception are sold out; however, spectators may look on from dockside walkways and the pier.

For more information see www.danapointhistorical.com.

San Juan Capistrano Friends of the Library

Dana Point history buffs who want to make an entire day of it should also check out the San Juan Capistrano Friends of the Library’s R.H. Dana Jr. 200th Birthday Bash. This celebration will take place at the SJC Library bookstore, back lawn and La Sala auditorium and courtyard, 31495-A El Camino Real in San Juan from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Free attractions will include a 19th Century Southern California shore whaling exhibit from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the La Sala auditorium, a lecture and book signing by David T. Dana III of Into the Tiger’s Mouth: A Novel of the China Trade 1857-1863 at the bookstore and in the courtyard from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. a display of Bob Minty’s 17th and 18th Century navigational instruments and scrimshaw collection.

The event will include the annual Crazy Croquet Tournament (a $5 ticketed event) officiated by the U.S. Croquet Association and trick shots demo from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., followed by the Culinary Journey Around Cape Horn (a $25 ticketed food tasting from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.) including a Mexican lasso demonstration by Marcos Reyes from 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Beginning at 8 p.m., a concert “A Musical History of the American West” and “A Tribute to the Human Rights Legacy of Richard Henry Dana” (a $25 ticketed event) will be presented, including a pre-concert living history review of Dana’s Life by Minty.

For more information about the San Juan event, stop by the SJC Friends Bookstore or call 949.493.2688 or 949.218.4512.

 

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