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Reflections Quarterly Newsletter

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2004 Volume 35, Issue 3

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ROMP!
Children Discover Balboa Park

There is something new for children in Balboa Park, and SOHO member Linda A. Canada was its guest curator. The San Diego Historical Society Museum in the Casa de Balboa is home to an interactive and hands-on exhibition where children may learn about the history of Balboa Park.

Filled with historically based activities and colorful graphics, the exhibition is scaled for, and designed to address, the interests and curriculum standards for third grade students. Children will crawl through, sit upon, press buttons, and lift levers to learn about the Park from before its designation until the present day. Vintage film and photographs illustrate buildings and activities that took place there. Key interactive elements illustrate the two Expositions, which gave the Park its beautiful buildings.

Once children complete the exhibition and earn their junior historian sticker, they may want to use one of two "scavenger hunt" handouts to locate architectural details from either the 1915-16 or 1935-36 Expositions.

ROMP! is open daily from 10-5 at the San Diego Historical Society Museum on the Prado in Balboa Park. For more information, call the Society at (619) 232-6203.

Editor's Note: Linda Canada is a SOHO volunteer who has given her time generously in many ways. She is a part of our volunteer editorial staff for the quarterly and is also mentoring our summer intern with the Historic Preservation Curriculum program.

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• Court Sets Aside Port's Coronado Belt Line Lease
  By Susan Brandt-Hawley
• SOHO Takes Leadership Role in Protection of Cultural Sites
• Disposable World: Outgoing President's Message
  By David Marshall
• Obliterated & Forever Lost: Message from the Executive Director
  By Bruce Coons
• People In Preservation: The Event of the Season
• People In Preservation Award Winners
• Coronado Ordinance Scores a Victory for Local Historic Preservation
  By Julie Kolb
• Designation of Coronado Railroad to be Appealed
• SOHO's Dedication to Preservation
  By Barry E. Hager
• Eleven Most Endangered Historic Resources
• Another Save! The Rawson residence
• New Resources in the California Room
  By Beth Montes
• Meet Summer Intern Stephanie Gordon
• Chris Ownby as Professor Banza Calabash
• Whaley House Educational Series
  By David Swarens
• ROMP! Children Discover Balboa Park
• A Home Run for Preservation
• Annual Membership Meeting Sunday September 26th
• Annual Call for Board of Director Nominations
• The Whaley House Interior Restoration
• The Verna House Renovation
• The SOHO Museum Shop Reopens
  By Alana Coons
• A Guide to Modern San Diego
  By Keith York
• SOHO Presents the 2004 San Diego Modernism Weekend: October 22, 23, 24
• Lost San Diego
• SOHO Museum Shop at the Whaley House
  2 New Arts & Crafts Books!

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