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Father Serra Exhibit at the Huntington Library: A docent field trip to the Huntington Library is planned for Monday, November 11, 2013.  One of the exhibits that we will see is the Junipero Serra exhibition at the Huntington.  It's a scholastic rite of passage for every California fourth-grader: studying the history of the Spanish Catholic missions and the life of Father Junípero Serra and of interest to us who volunteer in the California History Hall. Click on the link below to view the Times article:   http://fw.to/087GVDT Climate change may have caused demise of Late Bronze Age civilizations : Archaeologists have debated for decades over what caused the once-flourishing civilizations along the eastern Mediterranean coast to collapse about 1200 BC. Many scholars have cited warfare, political unrest and natural disaster as factors. But a new study supports the theory that climate change was largely responsible. To view article, click on this link:  http://fw.to/ga3Hpx