"The Latest Dispatch from the Santa Barbara Presidio"
August 29th, 2025
Featuring local historians and authors Michael Hardwick & Jarrell Jackman
Join a select group of those interested in an informative conversation with different monthly experts who will first share from a vast store of knowledge, then engage with those present in a lively give & take.
Location: Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Free parking on site | Look for the SBMAL sign on the front portico, to the left.
Cost: $50 per event | RSVP Required | Limited to 25 attendees | Light Refreshments
🗣 Michael Hardwick, author of "Spanish Arms & Armaments of the Presidios of California," and Jarrell Jackman, author of "Santa Barbara's Royal Presidio: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Spain's Last Adobe Fortress," will join in a conversation revealing the most recent findings of the connections of Santa Barbara and the other California presidios to many other aspects of United States history. These are the latest dispatches from the frontier.
www.sbmal.org/events for details of the series.
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https://www.sbmal.org/events-1/an-educating-conversation-the-latest-dispatch-from-the-santa-barbara-presidio
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