with Featured speaker
Award-winning author
Paul Gray
Thursday, February 27th at 7:30 p.m.
Andres Pico Adobe,
10940 Sepulveda Blvd., Mission Hills
Free to the public - Refreshments will be served
MISSION HILLS, CA Everything you always wanted to know about Andres Pico, but didn't know what to ask will be revealed as the San Fernando Valley Historical Society (SFVHS) welcomes award-winning author Paul Gray at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 27 at the historic Andres Pico Adobe, 10940 Sepulveda Blvd., Mission Hills.
Gray's official topic, "The Amazing Career of Andres Pico, 1810-1859," will recount the fortuitous life of the man who served as a General in the Mexican Army fighting the Americanos, and then rose to social and political stature under U.S. rule. His brother, Pio Pico, was the last Governor of Mexican California, but it was Andres who made great history as the signer of the Treaty of Cahuenga in the San Fernando Valley in 1847, which paved the way for California and several other Western states to become part of the United States.
A native Angeleno, Gray wrote "Forster v Pico: The Struggle for the Rancho Santa Margarita" in 1998, which won the Donald H. Pfleuger Award for "distinguished research and writing" from the Historical Society of Southern California. Gray is in the process of completing a biography of Francisco P. Ramirez, editor and social historian of the same period. Gray, a practicing attorney in Claremont, has been listed in "Who's Who in American Law" and "Who's Who in America," as well as Martindale-Hubbell's "Bar Register of Pre-Eminent Lawyers."
It is fitting that the 168-year-old Adobe bearing Andre's name be the site of Gray's fascinating discussion. The Andres Pico Adobe is the second oldest adobe home in the City of Los Angeles and is a registered national, state and city landmark. It is located in the Andres Pico Adobe Park at the curved intersection of Sepulveda and Brand Boulevards (directly across from the Mission Hills Annex of the U.S. Post Office).
For additional information
call the San Fernando Valley Historical Society
818-365-7810
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