Set Your Calendars to Attend the 250 Celebration Speakers Events
Our FIFTH SPEAKER SERIES with Richard Foss was nearly SOLD OUT!
Below are photos created by Photographers Rick Valasek and Art Hernandez
Our FOURTH Speaker Series event on Sunday, March 22nd, with Dennis Carlos and Bill Islas was a resounding success!
Watch The Video!
The SJC 250 Committe is Producing Two MORE SPEAKER EVENTS
@ San Juan Capistrano Community Center
Our THIRD Speaker Series with Rose Marie Beebe PH.D. and
Robert Senkewicz, PH.D. was totally amazing!
“Women’s perspective of
Early California”
“Write Long and Beautiful Letters”
The Vallejos’ Californio Correspondence, 1846-1888
Our THIRD Speaker Series event on Sunday, February 22nd, 1:30-4:00PM at the San Juan Capistrano Community Center was an amazing success! Photos are posted below.
Producer Jonathan Morgan Jenkins
Below are photos created by our SJC250 Event Photographer
Rick Valasek and also Art Hernandez.
Our FIRST Speaker Series Event featuring local OC Historian Chris Jepsen was a great success! Click on the video to the right to watch the entire presentation.
Our SECOND Speaker Series with Steven Hackle PHD was nearly SOLD OUT!
Below are photos created by our SJC250 Event Photographer Rick Valasek.
Don’t Miss Any Of Our
SJC 250 Speaker Events!
All of the Speaker Events will be held at the San Juan Capistrano Community Center
Set Your Calendars to Attend the 250 Celebration Speakers Events
Chris Jepsen
Orange County
Archivist and Historian
Sunday, November 9, 2025
1:30-3:00PM
Steven Hackel
Chair & Professor, Dept of History
UC Riverside
Sunday, January 11th, 2026
1:30-3:00PM
Rose Marie Beebe, Professor Emerita of Spanish Literature, Department of Modern Languages, Santa Clara University and
Robert M. Senkewicz, Professor Emeritus of History, Santa Clara University
Sunday, February 22, 2026
1:30-4:00PM
William Islas & Dennis Carlos
Early California
Settlers
Sunday, March 22, 2026
1:30-3:00PM
Richard Foss
American Journalist Eclectic Historian of Food, Drink and Culture
Sunday, April 26, 2026
1:30-3:00PM
Members of the SJC Docent Society
The Adobes of San Juan Capistrano: People Who Lived in Them
Sunday, May 17, 2026
1:30-3:00PM
Andrew Stroscher
“Recent” SJC History and the
Story of Eastern Downtown
Sunday, June 14, 2026
1:30-3:00PM
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