Name: Inland Empire Water Lantern Festival
Start: 2024-09-13T16:00:00-07:00

The Crestline Water Lantern Festival is bringing people together for a celebration of light and community! This unforgettable evening will be filled with tasty food trucks, fun music, activities, and thousands of lanterns lighting up the night with love, hope, and happiness.

The event is taking place on September 13 &amp; 14 at Lake Gregory.
Tickets are selling fast! Make sure to claim yours now on our website (www.waterlanternfestival.com) and follow us on social media @waterlanternfestival.
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Local Event: Inland Empire Water Lantern Festival 

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Inland Empire Water Lantern Festival 

Friday September 13, 2024: The Crestline&nbsp;Water Lantern Festival is bringing people together for a celebration of light and community! This...

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Historian and award-winning author Robert M. “Bert” Dunkerly of Richmond, Virginia will present a free, virtual program on <a href="https://emergingcivilwar.com/2018/10/20/civil-war-railroads-an-overview/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"</a><a href="https://emergingcivilwar.com/2018/10/20/civil-war-railroads-an-overview/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Civil War Railroads"</a> to the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table at 6:30 p.m. (PDT) Monday, Aug. 19.
The link, which opens at 6:15 (PDT) that night, is at: <a href="https://www.inlandempirecwrt.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">inlandempirecwrt.org</a>. The recording will be posted on the website shortly thereafter.
“I will analyze how both sides made use of their resources,” says Bert of the Union and the Confederacy, “how <a href="https://emergingcivilwar.com/2018/10/24/railroads-management-in-the-war/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">railroads</a> affected military strategy and operations, and summarize the impact of railroads on the war.”
Bert will address the Round Table as part of the Emerging Civil War (ECW) Speakers Bureau. The ECW is “a public history-oriented platform for sharing original scholarship related to the American Civil War.”
Bert is a park ranger at Richmond National Battlefield Park, and a past president of the Richmond Civil War Round Table. He serves on the Preservation Commission for the American Revolution Round Table in Richmond.
Bert is actively involved in historic preservation and research. He has worked at 14 historic sites, and has written more than one dozen books and numerous scholarly <a href="https://emergingcivilwar.com/author/bd1754/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">articles,</a> including those for the nonprofit&nbsp;Emerging Civil War.
His research includes archaeology, colonial life, military history and historic commemoration.&nbsp;Bert has visited more than 500 battlefields and more than 1,000 historic sites worldwide. 

Bert has taught courses at Central Virginia Community College, the University of Richmond and the Virginia Historical Society.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Saint Vincent College, a private Benedictine college in Latrobe, Pennsylvania; and a master’s degree in historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.
According to the <a href="https://transportation.army.mil/history/studies/railroad.html#:~:text=From%20the%20American%20Civil%20War,system%20by%20a%20retreating%20enemy." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">U.S. Army Transportation Corps</a>, "Railroads could transport larger number of troops and supplies faster (than animal-drawn wagons or the speed of a walking man); so&nbsp;Congress authorized President Abraham Lincoln to take over the operations of all railroads on 31 January 1862. This resulted in the organization of the United States Military Railroad (USMRR). The railroad came into prominence as a means of military transportation so much so that the vast majority of battles and campaigns were fought along or for control of railroad lines."&nbsp;
For more information, go to:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.inlandempirecwrt.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">inlandempirecwrt.org</a>; or email: <a href="mailto:iecwrt@gmail.com">iecwrt@gmail.com</a>.
Photo: A U.S. Military Railroad train travels on&nbsp;a newly repaired, temporary bridge on&nbsp;the crucial Orange &amp; Alexandria Railroad&nbsp;at Union Mills, Virginia, circa 1863. Photo: Library of Congress.

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Calling all sports fans! In “The Latino/a Sporting History of the Inland Empire,” Dr. José Alamillo will share the untold stories of Latino and Latina athletes, teams and leagues, and their supporters, who all fought for a more level playing field in the Inland Empire. José M. Alamillo is professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Channel Islands (Camarillo, CA). Dr. Alamillo is an expert on Mexican American cultural history with a focus on labor, immigration, gender, leisure, and sports. He is the author of <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/85nth5xn9780252030819.html__;!!LnQxKMu5lWc!Pns1oajTuY7e4sdNQFmqBjSJEyMLVVs7PWFEh4XWwQ2eI9Lm4YzV6c1KYYZ_g5ZYvuFwI9lZBRmX1ET-R7ptz-Wm-Y3BRHcG$" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town</a> (2006) and co-author of <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/us.humankinetics.com/products/latinos-in-u-s-sport__;!!LnQxKMu5lWc!Pns1oajTuY7e4sdNQFmqBjSJEyMLVVs7PWFEh4XWwQ2eI9Lm4YzV6c1KYYZ_g5ZYvuFwI9lZBRmX1ET-R7ptz-Wm-Qx61xw7$" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Latinos in U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance</a> (2011), Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora (Rutgers University Press, 2020).

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Welcome to the first inaugural Altis Car Meet - hosted by Vic Slick with KOLA FM! 
Saturday, October 12th @ 10:00 AM
Located at Altis - 1555 Skystone Way, Beaumont, Ca 92223
Our Classic Car Meet will have freshly made classic foods, ice-cold beer, and fancy coffee. We will also have an incredible DJ, cash prizes, raffles, and amazing cars! Everyone who enters the Cash Raffle has the chance to WIN. 
Registration Fee: $20
OUR CASH PRIZES FOR CLASSIC CAR PARTICIPANTS: 
People's Choice - $300
First Best in Show - $200 
Second Best in Show - $150 
Third Best in Show - $100

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