First harvest. Photo by Mike Imwalle. In Santa Barbara, we are lucky enough to garden year-round.  This fall, our garden interns from...

Wayne Sherman gave the keynote address at this year’s Veterans Day ceremony at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park. We are...

by Mike Imwalle Tile plaque on the adobe wall enclosing the Pico Adobe. Photo by Mike Imwalle. The Buenaventura Pico adobe is a hidden...

by Noah Tucker Elvira Tafoya (pictured bottom row right) along with the cast of La Pastorela. Photo by Noah Tucker. This year’s...

by Amanda Gonzalez In the foreground, SBTHP Director of Education, Karen Anderson learns to spread masa onto corn husks with her daughter...

by Mike Imwalle 2011 Midwinter Solstice sun shining through the choir loft window of the Presidio Chapel, El Presidio de Santa Barbara...

by Katherine Lowe Librarian Torie Quiñonez holds an object for photographer Lael Wageneck. Photo by Anne Petersen. In the course of...

by Wayne Sherman Terri Imwalle picking olives. Photo by Mike Imwalle. This year marks the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation’s...

Kathy Chalfant gathers the students around the Canon Perdido Street entrance to the Presidio to relate the story of "The Lost Cannon" in...

Interpreter José de Jesus Perez stands ready to help kids make their own adarga, a leather shield used by the soldiers stationed at the...

by Nora Kassner Photo by Mike Imwalle. In June of 2011, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum donated a wooden sign to SBTHP. Reading “This...

by Anne Petersen Suzi Calderon Bellman and her father, Jack Calderon, review family photographs. Photo by Mike Imwalle. This week we...

by Michael H. Imwalle Eduardo Vallin Garcia, maintenance supervisor for the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation can often be...

by Meredith Brockriede Participants listen to Diana’s instruction in the historic Presidio Chapel. A group of women gathered on a warm,...

By Karen Schultz Anderson El Coro Performing in the Presidio Chapel. Photo by Harry Schiffke. Do you love to sing? Do you love to warm up...

By Gazal Hamayouni and Corinna Roberts If there's one thing true about the garden, it's that the weeding never ends. After planting new...

By Michael Orth So what is the puzzle you may ask? While many structural details about the Santa Barbara Post Office are known, the...

By Laina Malm-Levine Jimmy's Oriental Gardens, photographed in 2007. When I first heard about a project to catalog the collections...

by Michael H. Imwalle Current home of The Anacapa School. Photo by Mike Imwalle. Beginning in classrooms at the former Santa Barbara...

by Wayne Sherman (Did you miss part 1? You can find it here.) Photo by Mike Imwalle. This past summer, students in SBTHP’s Presidio...