Family Fun Found at Lanterman House Free Day

Lanterman House volunteer and La Cñada resident Monica Suerth is ready to greet visitors for Family Free Day. Suerth wears flapper attire to fit the era in which the House was built – 1915.
Photos by Ruth SOWBY

The Lanterman Historical Museum Foundation celebrated the native landscape of the Crescenta Cañada Valley with a free outside event at the Lanterman House on Sunday, Nov. 7. The event was highlighted by a land acknowledgment ceremony, which recognized the Gabrielino Tongva people as the traditional stewards of the Crescenta Cañada Valley, and affirmed their enduring relationship with the land.

Activities at the event included a Native American flute performance, food samples made from native plants and a craft table where visitors could make ornaments out of locally grown white sage.

For more information, visit the website www.lantermanhouse.org.

The Lanterman House is located at 4420 Encinas Drive in La Cañada Flintridge.

Owen Reitano, 7, tastes chia seed pudding with his grandmother, La Cañada resident and Lanterman House volunteer Lyn Slotky. The Family Free Day at the Lanterman House included the sampling of food made from native plants.