Los Californianos will present the history of travel from Sonora and Horcasitas by the migration of this racially diverse and integrated group of Spanish subjects to their new homes and new lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This year is the 246th celebration of the incredible 1800-mile journey made by soldados, colonists, and families, as they travel up the trail of the 2nd Juan Bautista de Anza Expedition of 1775-76. Over 50 years, descendants of the founding of El Presidio Real de San Francisco, commemorate with their ancestors in this most tumultuous but important change in California history. This year the event will be entirely virtual. The program will present the history from Sonora and Horcasitas by the migration of this racially diverse and integrated group of Spanish subjects to their new homes and new lives to San Francisco. Included will be formal remarks, presentations of music, the Roll Call of the Founders, Flower Ceremony, and the Formal Dedication of the Presidio. Dr. Ruben Mendoza will be the keynote speaker on the importance of Monterey. The Anza Trail Color Guard, Amigos de Anza Equestrian Drill Team. soldados-David Martinez and Roger Knox, the women of the expedition, and the National Daughters of the American Revolution will all be honored. John Ernest on trumpet, Cheryl Cain, Clare Barrios-Knox, Luis Moreno, Laury J. Woods, Lance Beeson and Marilyn Merlino of Los Arribeños de San Francisco play the music of the era and Francisca Vallejo’s music will be showcased. This year the First People on the southern trail will be included with a Barbareño descendant and an ambassador of Chumash culture, Ernestine Ygnacio De Soto, in her own language and presentation. Here is where California becomes a multicultural society as the Californianos become the genesis and the pilgrims of our great state as they form the foundation of the city of San Francisco.
To register to attend, please hit here, and you will receive an invitation with access to attend the event. This is their most ambitious presentation yet, and the last planned program to be produced by the team of Martha Vallejo McGettigan, Alan J Parkin SR, Glenda Eve Parkin, and Damian Bacich, Ph.D.
