Mexican-heritage historian to speak at San Bernardino County Museum

Historian Robert Gonzalez Vasquez will present video clips from his project "From the Ground Up: Inland Mexican Heritage & Community History" at the San Bernardino County Museum.

The event will be held at noon, Oct. At 2 p.m.,  Vasquez will present a lecture in the Fisk Gallery.  Admission to the museum is free that day.

This presentation will highlight 15 years of archive, public history,and humanities work conducted by Vasquez. There will also be an exhibit of images and materials from Living on the Dime and the Redlands Oral History Project. 

Vasquez created the groundbreaking Redlands Oral History Project, an oral memoir and photo archive collection focusing on the historic importance of Mexican barrios in the Inland Empire. Building on that landmark work, Vasquez founded Inland Mexican Heritage (www.mexicanheritage.org) in 2001 to promote community-based scholarship and to continue research and development of media projects and archive materials.

Vasquez is completing a documentary film, "Living on the Dime," a 3-year project on the effects of the 10 Freeway on the communities of Inland Southern California. He is also preparing a pictorial history of Mexican communities in the East San Bernardino Valley.

A native of California, Vasquez resides in Joshua Tree and Las Vegas, New Mexico.  

 
The San Bernardino County Museum is at the California Street exit from Interstate 10 in Redlands.

For more information, visit www.sbcountymuseum.org. or call (909) 307-2669 ext. 229 or TDD (909) 792-1462.