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Time Capsule Recovery, Santa Teresa County Park, 5/25-12/11/21 by Ronald Horii
The Bear Tree Lot is part of the historic area of Santa Teresa County Park. It contains the Bear Tree, which is a huge ancient valley oak in the middle of the lot on Curie Drive east of Manila Way. It's called the Bear Tree because it is old enough to have been used for bull and bear fights during the early rancho days. Bears would be tied to trees and made to fight bulls as entertainment. Spectators would bet on who would win. This practice was outlawed when California joined the US. There is a stone Clampers monument with a bronze plaque, which talks about the Bear Tree and the Bernal Adobe that was there. When the monument was dedicated, Friends of Santa Teresa Park President Mike Boulland, who was a teacher at Baldwin Elementary School at the time, had his class create a time capsule to be buried behind the monument at the same time. In 2021, a new trail was going to be built through the lot, necessitating the relocation of the monument. This meant that the time capsule would also have to be unearthed. This album shows the excavation of the time capsule and its opening at the dedication ceremony for the new trail. (This was the dedication ceremony: https://tinyurl.com/ycx6a74n) A new time capsule is being prepared and will be buried some time in the future.
This is about the Bear Tree Lot and monument: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=52767&fbclid=IwAR0KXlLoZUL0Lk0i1K4rdo36gbMPLXIzq1gAfDfC7RRvJfklsM3_HYjZzkE
This is what the monument says: http://www.mountaincharlie1850.org/pl_bernal_adobe.html
The 2017 FOSTP newsletter talks about the history of the Bear Tree Lot and the efforts to preserve it: http://www.stpfriends.org/FOSTP-Newsletter-Summer-2017.pdf
The 2021 FOSTP newsletter talks about the new trail: http://www.stpfriends.org/FOSTP-Newsletter-November-2021.pdf
The Friends of Santa Teresa Park's website: http://www.stpfriends.org/
The Bear Tree Lot is part of the historic area of Santa Teresa County Park. It contains the Bear Tree, which is a huge ancient valley oak in the middle of the lot on Curie Drive east of Manila Way. It's called the Bear Tree because it is old enough to have been used for bull and bear fights during the early rancho days. Bears would be tied to trees and made to fight bulls as entertainment. Spectators would bet on who would win. This practice was outlawed when California joined the US. There is a stone Clampers monument with a bronze plaque, which talks about the Bear Tree and the Bernal Adobe that was there. When the monument was dedicated, Friends of Santa Teresa Park President Mike Boulland, who was a teacher at Baldwin Elementary School at the time, had his class create a time capsule to be buried behind the monument at the same time. In 2021, a new trail was going to be built through the lot, necessitating the relocation of the monument. This meant that the time capsule would also have to be unearthed. This album shows the excavation of the time capsule and its opening at the dedication ceremony for the new trail. (This was the dedication ceremony: https://tinyurl.com/ycx6a74n) A new time capsule is being prepared and will be buried some time in the future.
This is about the Bear Tree Lot and monument: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=52767&fbclid=IwAR0KXlLoZUL0Lk0i1K4rdo36gbMPLXIzq1gAfDfC7RRvJfklsM3_HYjZzkE
This is what the monument says: http://www.mountaincharlie1850.org/pl_bernal_adobe.html
The 2017 FOSTP newsletter talks about the history of the Bear Tree Lot and the efforts to preserve it: http://www.stpfriends.org/FOSTP-Newsletter-Summer-2017.pdf
The 2021 FOSTP newsletter talks about the new trail: http://www.stpfriends.org/FOSTP-Newsletter-November-2021.pdf
The Friends of Santa Teresa Park's website: http://www.stpfriends.org/
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