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🍊Nonprofit formed in 1973 to research, collect & preserve City of Orange, CA history archives (photographs, written materials & related ephemera); host public events, activities & programs; give historical tours & join in community celebrations!

📣TONIGHT! 💀🍊Get here early to choose your favorite seat! Will it be upstairs on the balcony, on the main floor to the si...
09/21/2026

📣TONIGHT! 💀🍊Get here early to choose your favorite seat! Will it be upstairs on the balcony, on the main floor to the sides, or center and up close to see everything guest speaker Darcy Staniforth Anderson has to share about tonight’s special program “From Grief to Grave: Exploring Victorian Death Culture”

🪦Venture through the veil with us to explore how superstition, customs and rituals defined the Victorian death culture.

This program is a very special night of history and a chance to view inside the old Campbell Opera House, now the Masonic Lodge, all provided FREE from the Orange Community Historical Society in partnership with Haunted Orange County Ghost Tours, the Orange Grove Lodge F&AM #293 Orange Grove Lodge #293 Free And Accepted Masons and Darcy Staniforth Anderson.

📍71 Plaza Square, Old Towne Orange (Chase Bank Building, enter through door next to Bagel Me)

📆 Monday, September 21st

⏰ 6:00pm

✅ No RSVP needed, bring your family and friends!

📣TOMORROW! 🖤 Meet our guest speaker Darcy Staniforth, Haunted Orange County Ghost Tours’s own Director of Tour Operation...
09/21/2026

📣TOMORROW! 🖤 Meet our guest speaker Darcy Staniforth, Haunted Orange County Ghost Tours’s own Director of Tour Operations as you join us for a very special (and FREE!) evening program of FROM GRIEF TO THE GRAVE: EXPLORING VICTORIAN DEATH CULTURE.

🗣️Darcy’s credentials speak for themself as an academic, historian, writer, performer, ghost host, and paranormal investigator who has been interested in death and dying since she was very young and she has carried that interest into both her personal and professional life today.

🪦Venture through the veil Monday night with us to explore how superstition, customs and rituals defined the Victorian death culture.

💀While modern Americans might shy away from talking about death, grief, and loss, the Victorians were immersed in it. From the clothes and jewelry they wore, the way they decorated their houses, to picnicking among the dead, this special historical program will touch on all of that and more.

This program is a very special night of history and a chance to view inside the old Campbell Opera House, now the Masonic Lodge, all provided FREE from the Orange Community Historical Society in partnership with Haunted Orange County Ghost Tours, the Orange Grove Lodge F&AM #293 Orange Grove Lodge #293 Free And Accepted Masons and Darcy Staniforth.

📍71 Plaza Square, Old Towne Orange (Chase Bank Building, enter through door next to Bagel Me)

📆 Monday, September 21st

⏰ 6:00pm

✅ No RSVP needed, bring your family and friends!

💀ONE WEEK🍊🪦Venture through the veil to explore how superstition, customs and rituals defined the Victorian death culture...
09/15/2026

💀ONE WEEK🍊🪦Venture through the veil to explore how superstition, customs and rituals defined the Victorian death culture at our FREE OCHS program “FROM GRIEF TO THE GRAVE, EXPLORING VICTORIAN DEATH CULTURE” with Darcy Staniforth

⚰️We cordially invite you to an evening at the historic Masonic lodge of Old Towne Orange (rumored to be haunted!) with historian, death scholar, paranormal expert and ghost hostess (with Haunted Orange County) Darcy Staniforth bringing us this special program on Victorian Death Culture. While modern Americans might shy away from talking about death, grief, and loss, the Victorians were immersed in it. From the clothes and jewelry they wore, the way they decorated their houses, to picnicking among the dead, this special historical program will touch on all of that and more.

This program is a very special night of history and a chance to view inside the old Campbell Opera House, now the Masonic Lodge, all provided FREE from the Orange Community Historical Society in partnership with Haunted Orange County Ghost Tours, the Orange Grove Lodge F&AM #293 Orange Grove Lodge #293 Free And Accepted Masons and Darcy Staniforth .

📍71 Plaza Square, Old Towne Orange (Chase Bank Building, enter through door next to Bagel Me)

📆 Monday, September 21st

⏰ 6:00pm

✅ No RSVP needed, bring your family and friends!

📣10 days out! We’re opening the doors to the historic Campbell Opera House in the Old Towne Orange Plaza, and you’re inv...
09/12/2026

📣10 days out! We’re opening the doors to the historic Campbell Opera House in the Old Towne Orange Plaza, and you’re invited!

Get there early so you can decide if you’re sitting upstairs in the balcony, on the sides, or up front and center!

👋Join OCHS and the Orange Plaza Masons for a very special FREE evening 💀🍊FROM GRIEF TO THE GRAVE: EXPLORING VICTORIAN DEATH CULTURE

🪦Venture through the veil to explore how superstition, customs and rituals defined the Victorian death culture.

⚰️We cordially invite you to an evening at the historic Masonic lodge of Old Towne Orange (rumored to be haunted!) with historian, death scholar, paranormal expert and ghost hostess (with Haunted Orange County) Darcy Staniforth bringing us this special program on Victorian Death Culture. While modern Americans might shy away from talking about death, grief, and loss, the Victorians were immersed in it. From the clothes and jewelry they wore, the way they decorated their houses, to picnicking among the dead, this special historical program will touch on all of that and more.

This program is a very special night of history and a chance to view inside the main rooms of the old Campbell Opera House, now the Masonic Lodge, all provided FREE from the Orange Community Historical Society in partnership with Haunted Orange County Ghost Tours , the Orange Grove Lodge F&AM #293 Orange Grove Lodge #293 Free And Accepted Masons and Darcy Staniforth .

📍71 Plaza Square, Old Towne Orange (Chase Bank Building, enter through door next to Bagel Me)

📆 Monday, September 21st

⏰ 6:00pm

✅ No RSVP needed, bring your family and friends!

(FYI: September’s event will be in the Lodge’s main rooms only, not the full tour )

💀🍊FROM GRIEF TO THE GRAVE, EXPLORING VICTORIAN DEATH CULTURE🪦Venture through the veil to explore how superstition, custo...
08/20/2026

💀🍊FROM GRIEF TO THE GRAVE, EXPLORING VICTORIAN DEATH CULTURE

🪦Venture through the veil to explore how superstition, customs and rituals defined the Victorian death culture.

⚰️We cordially invite you to an evening at the historic Masonic lodge of Old Towne Orange (rumored to be haunted!) with historian, death scholar, paranormal expert and ghost hostess (with Haunted Orange County) Darcy Staniforth bringing us this special program on Victorian Death Culture. While modern Americans might shy away from talking about death, grief, and loss, the Victorians were immersed in it. From the clothes and jewelry they wore, the way they decorated their houses, to picnicking among the dead, this special historical program will touch on all of that and more.

This program is a very special night of history and a chance to view inside the old Campbell Opera House, now the Masonic Lodge, all provided FREE from the Orange Community Historical Society in partnership with Haunted Orange County Ghost Tours, the Orange Grove Lodge F&AM #293 Orange Grove Lodge #293 Free And Accepted Masons and Darcy Staniforth.

📍71 Plaza Square, Old Towne Orange (Chase Bank Building, enter through door next to Bagel Me)

📆 Monday, September 21st

⏰ 6:00pm

✅ No RSVP needed, bring your family and friends!

📣🍊FREE Opening Reception: “A Brief History of El Modena”📆 THIS Thursday August 6th⏰5:30 PM 6:30 PM📍El Modena Branch Lib...
08/05/2026

📣🍊FREE Opening Reception: “A Brief History of El Modena”

📆 THIS Thursday August 6th

⏰5:30 PM 6:30 PM

📍El Modena Branch Library

🤗 Exhibit information is presented in both English and Spanish, join us for refreshments and community mingling, invite everyone!

🗣️This new exhibit takes visitors on a journey from the founding of the Quaker settlement of Modena in 1885 through the improvements to El Modena championed by Jess Perez, Orange’s first Latino councilman and mayor.

The exhibit showcases photographs and artifacts from the citrus industry that attracted families, including those of Lorenzo A. Ramirez, to the growing Mexican community in El Modena.

A central highlight of the exhibit is the Ramirez family and their landmark court case, Mendez et al. v. Westminster, which ended the segregation of Mexican American students in California public schools and set a significant precedent for desegregation nationwide.

Additionally, the exhibit features an oil painting by Emigdio Vasquez along with the tools he used to paint scenes that honor Mexican American history.

📣TONIGHT!🍊 Our FREE public program celebrating the 1976 red white and blue celebration…the Orange way, comes to the Oran...
07/28/2026

📣TONIGHT!🍊 Our FREE public program celebrating the 1976 red white and blue celebration…the Orange way, comes to the Orange Public Library!

❤️🤍💙🧡As America turns 250, join us for a trip down memory lane while we look back at the celebration of America’s Bicentennial in 1976!

👀 During our FREE public history program with Lisa Lisa Ackerman Baldwin revisit what the country was doing to celebrate and work our way down to how the city of Orange marked that milestone, the Orange way! ❤️🤍💙🧡

🕺🏽Have some fun and wear your favorite 70s gear or dress in your favorite patriotic outfits!

🗓️ Tuesday, July 28th

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library Community Room
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

📣🕺🏽Get your finest 70’s gear ready!🍊 Our FREE public program celebrating the 1976 red white and blue celebration…the Ora...
07/27/2026

📣🕺🏽Get your finest 70’s gear ready!🍊 Our FREE public program celebrating the 1976 red white and blue celebration…the Orange way, comes to the Orange Public Library tomorrow!

❤️🤍💙🧡As America turns 250, join us for a trip down memory lane while we look back at the celebration of America’s Bicentennial in 1976!

👀 During our next FREE public history program with Lisa Lisa Ackerman Baldwin revisit what the country was doing to celebrate and work our way down to how the city of Orange marked that milestone, the Orange way! ❤️🤍💙🧡

🕺🏽Have some fun and wear your favorite 70s gear or dress in your favorite patriotic outfits!

🗓️ Tuesday, July 28th

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library Community Room
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

📣Next Tuesday!🍊 Our FREE public program celebrating the 1976 red white and blue celebration…the Orange way, comes to the...
07/24/2026

📣Next Tuesday!🍊 Our FREE public program celebrating the 1976 red white and blue celebration…the Orange way, comes to the Orange Public Library!

❤️🤍💙🧡As America turns 250, join us for a trip down memory lane while we look back at the celebration of America’s Bicentennial in 1976!

👀 During our next FREE public history program with Lisa Lisa Ackerman Baldwin revisit what the country was doing to celebrate and work our way down to how the city of Orange marked that milestone, the Orange way! ❤️🤍💙🧡

🕺🏽Have some fun and wear your favorite 70s gear or dress in your favorite patriotic outfits!

🗓️ Tuesday, July 28th

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library Community Room
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

ONE WEEK AWAY! 🇺🇸🍊it’s 1976 in Orange! As America turns 250, join us for a trip down memory lane while we look back at t...
07/22/2026

ONE WEEK AWAY! 🇺🇸🍊it’s 1976 in Orange! As America turns 250, join us for a trip down memory lane while we look back at the celebration of America’s Bicentennial in 1976!

👀 During our next FREE public history program with Lisa Lisa Ackerman Baldwin revisit what the country was doing to celebrate and work our way down to how the city of Orange marked that milestone, the Orange way! ❤️🤍💙🧡

Have some fun and wear your favorite 70s gear or dress in your favorite patriotic outfits!

🗓️ Tuesday, July 28th

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library Community Room
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

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PO Box 5484
Orange, CA
92863

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