May 2025 Field Trips

• Go to the EIE Resource Center
• Call our the EIE Resource Center at (626) 821-0025
• Go to our weekly PARK DAY 

COST:       $5.00 per family

PLACE:      Walnut, CA (For directions and map to parking go to                          https://www.mtsac.edu/wildlife/)

                  On your phone AP search: Mt. SAC Wildlife Sanctuary

PARKING:  Meters take quarters only or buy a day pass for $5.00

 Registration Deadline: Thursday, May 1, 2025 or until full

The Wildlife Sanctuary is a 26-acre outdoor classroom and preserve containing diverse ecosystems that are home to local plants, and animal habitats including coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oak woodland, walnut woodland, grassland, and three freshwater ponds. There is also a natural stream that flows year-round and runs through the center of the sanctuary.  

The Wildlife Sanctuary also provides protection for the birds and other animals who use the sanctuary as a migratory refuge or breeding grounds, including the federally threatened coastal California gnatcatcher. The animal populations in the sanctuary are free to enter or leave the sanctuary at any time.

Participants are advised to wear closed toed shoes.

For questions:  eiefieldtrips@gmail.com

To sign up: 

• Phone EIE during business hours at 626-821-0025
• Park Day
• Visit EIE Resource Center

COST:      $5.00 per family

 PLACE:    

• 15415 Don Julian Road
• City of Industry, CA 91745
• PARKING:  Free

 Registration Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025 or until full

Join us to learn some fascinating California history at the historic Workman & Temple family rancho which dates from the 1840s when Alta California was part of Mexico. There will be two guided tours according to age:

 Ain’t We Got Fun? (Ages 2-12)

This program introduces children to the history of the 1840s, 1870s, and 1920s by focusing on what people did for fun during these decades.

 Monument, Memorial, Showpiece, Home:

Celebrating La Casa Nueva at 100 House Tours  (Ages 13 and up)

 In 1922, the Temple family began building La Casa Nueva, a 12,400 square foot Spanish Colonial Revival mansion. By its completion, 5 years later, the lives of the Temple family had dramatically changed; what was the impact on the house that they were building? In this 45-minute tour, as we explore the house this afternoon, there is a question we want you to consider: What was the family’s intent in building this house?  Was it a built to stand as a monument, to act as a link to the history of the region? Was it meant to be a memorial to Laura Temple, the family matriarch who died during its initial construction? Was it meant to be a showpiece for a proud family with restoredwealth? Or was it simply built to be a family home? The answer is not as simple as you might think. Visitors will discover “evidence” to help them answer this question.

TOUR GOAL: The intent of this tour is to engage the visitor in the historic research process. By posing a question at the start of the tour, asking visitors to mentally “collect evidence” as we go through the spaces, and then sit down with them to discuss their “findings” they come away with a better understanding of what historians do and it also encourages them to consider the built environment in a different way. Beyond the beauty of the aesthetics to find the stories beneath them.

For questions:  eiefieldtrips@gmail.com

To sign up: 

• Phone EIE during business hours at 626-821-0025
• Park Day
• Visit EIE Resource Center

COST:        Free

PLACE:  

• Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Music Center)
• 135 N. Grand Ave.
• Los Angeles, CA
• PARKING:  $10.00

 Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 14, 2025, or until full

 In a court ruled by decadence and corruption, the Duke of Mantua sits on top. Whatever he wants, he gets. And lately, he’s set his sights on Rigoletto’s daughter. It’s enough to send the carefree court jester into a deadly rage, but revenge comes at a price he never expected.

Verdi master James Conlon conducts Rigoletto, featuring some of the most famous music in history. Quinn Kelsey, the premier Verdi baritone of his generation, returns to star in the title role, with tenor René Barbera as the suave and sadistic Duke and Italian soprano Rosa Feola as Gilda, his unsuspecting prey. Stage director Tomer Zvulun updates the action to Mussolini’s Italy, transporting audiences to a realm of glittering grandeur that’s absolutely rotten to the core.

 For questions:  eiefieldtrips@gmail.com

To sign up: 

• Phone EIE during business hours at 626-821-0025
• Park Day
• Visit EIE Resource Center