This Sunday is Founders Day, and organizers from the Morongo Basin Historical Society hope to make it an annual event. Reporter Mike Lipsitz says the focus of Founders Day is on history, but also family fun …
This Sunday, March 10, is Newlin & Vernette Landers Founders Day from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Morongo Basin Historical Society Museum & Research Center in Landers. Bring the family to this free event and pan for gold with the Hi-Desert Gold Diggers; discover Landers original historic Post Office; and explore Bob Connor’s Native Plant Garden and learn about plants that attract butterflies, birds, and other critters. There’s also a bobcat exhibit and other displays that bring our rich local history to life. Visitors are encouraged to bring old photos, scrapbooks, stories, and other memorabilia to share. The Museum and Research Center is located at 632 Landers Lane, about a quarter mile south of the Post Office, in Landers.
