Celebrate Duveneck Day at Hidden Villa

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What is the best way to celebrate the Duvenecks of Hidden Villa? Aside from organizing around the most pressing social issues of our time or visiting the extraordinary Duveneck exhibit at the Los Altos History Museum, we can gather together at Hidden Villa’s Duveneck Day to dance, learn, make crafts and build community. Come join Hidden Villa on Saturday, May 21 from 10 am until 4 pm as we celebrate the Duvenecks–Hidden Villa style.

Duveneck Day is a farm-wide celebration which will incorporate different aspects of Frank and Josephine’s lives with fun and educational activities throughout the ranch.  Guests will be able to visit our animal pens and tour the historic 81-year-old Duveneck House.  This family friendly day will also include Plein Air painters, blacksmiths at work, heritage crafts, and old-fashioned games.  Nancy Cassidy and Band will perform during a lunch time concert where Armadillo Willy’s BBQ will be available for purchase. Duveneck Day will also feature pony rides and an afternoon barn dance with the County Line Pickers and caller, Andy Wilson. Tickets are $10 per person; children under the age of two are free.

 Hidden Villa is a non-profit educational organization that uses its organic farm, wilderness, and community to teach and provide opportunities to learn about the environment and social justice. Hidden Villa stretches over 1600 acres of open space in the foothill of the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 40 miles south of San Francisco.  Our mission is to inspire a just and sustainable future through our programs, land and legacy. Hidden Villa was founded by Frank and Josephine Duveneck, who purchased the land in 1924 and offered it as a gathering place for discussion, reflection, and incubation of social reform. Over the following decades, the Duvenecks established the first Hostel on the PacificCoast (1937), the first multiracial summer camp (1945), and Hidden Villa’s Environmental Education Program (1970). The Trust for Hidden Villa was established as a nonprofit in 1960.

We look forward to seeing you on the farm for this very special event, a partner program of the Los Altos History Museum exhibit: "Touching Lives, The Duvenecks of Hidden Villa."

 For more information visit our website at www.hiddenvilla.org, call 650-949-9704, or email communityprograms@hiddenvilla.org.