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		<title>A bit of Catalina Equestrian History</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[For the Islander]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Blanny Avalon Hagenah Riding horses on Catalina Island is a very special privilege, thanks to the vision of the Wrigley and Offield Families and the Catalina Island Conservancy. Horses have been part of the Catalina Island landscape throughout the past 125+ years. Horses have been used for Avalon carriage transportation, stagecoach transport to Two [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cabrillo Steamer fading into history</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Apodaca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Former Catalina residents, now living in Northern California, recently sent in a photo of the last remnants of a piece of Catalina history. The Cabrillo Steamer, a wooden hull steamship, was one of the early transportation ships to bring visitors to Catalina Island. The ship was made by the Banning Brothers, who owned the Wilmington [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Avalon VFW Post forced to close</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Apodaca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 19:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Catalina Island prepares to join the rest of the country in celebrating America’s Independence, Avalon will need to adjust a little bit, as a regular participant of its celebration has been lost. The Avalon chapter of the Veterans of Foreign War (VFW) Post is closing its doors, in a manner of speaking. It has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New exhibit highlights Catalina history</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[For the Islander]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new exhibit at the Catalina Island Museum for Art &#38; History highlights the museum’s seven-decade role in preserving the island’s unique history and art. With a growing permanent collection, the museum unveils previously unseen captivating artifacts in the exhibition. On display until fall 2024, the exhibit shares curious artifacts, photos, and paintings revealing Catalina [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cabinet of Curiosities: 70 Objects for 70 Years</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtesy of Catalina Island Museum]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Museum event happening during 70th Anniversary Fundraising Extravaganza Join Catalina Museum for Art &#38; History for the 70th Anniversary Fundraising Extravaganza on Saturday, September 9,2023 from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Established in 1953, the museum is looking back through 70 years of collecting and preserving Catalina Island’s cultural heritage to present the Cabinet of Curiosities: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Island library connected to 88 others overtown</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Birchall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 18:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Folks who visit Avalon Library may not realize that our petit island library branch is connected to the 88 other libraries on the mainland. That means that you have access to any book, DVD, or magazine that is in the collection of any LA County Library. It also means that by default, little Avalon Library [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>First Friday &#8211; Crossing Waters</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[For the Islander]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 18:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Catalina Museum for Art &#38; History is hosting a happy hour for its First Fridays at the Museum event, today from 5 to 7 p.m. Visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy light bites and cocktail hour as they enjoy one of the last opportunities to view the Crossing Waters: Contemporary Tongva Artists Carrying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Students present exhibit research to museum</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Apodaca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 18:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Proposal is for story of impact of missions on early islanders Two Los Angeles area elementary school students recently presented their idea for a potential exhibit to the Catalina Museum for Art &#38; History. The students worked on the proposal for three months with special projects tutor, Peter Paccone, meeting once a week for 90-minute [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Catalina Museum for Art &#038; History exhibition tells ‘Tall Tiki Tales’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtesy Catalina Island Museum]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 20:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Catalina Museum for Art &#38; History will present the exhibition “Tall Tiki Tales: Catalina as a South Seas Island,” exploring Catalina Island’s contribution (as a film set) in the evolution and popularization of tiki culture. The exhibition traces the origins of tiki culture from adventure books, their adaptations into Hollywood films, to the subsequent South [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Family of island contributors gather in Avalon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Apodaca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 20:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fletcher family still consider Catalina part of the family Dave and Vivian Fletcher came to Catalina for the first time in 1937. They had seen a billboard on their honeymoon that read “Take the Take the Big White Steamer to Catalina,” so they did. It was their introduction to the island, but when opportunities arose [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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