by marina | Mar 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you are interested in discovering your ethnicity, connecting with distant relatives, or learning about your family history try out ancestry.com. Click Here to use our link and you’ll save $10 on your DNA test, while ancestryDNA will donate $10 to DANA for...
by marina | Mar 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
We all are shaped by our experiences in our lives. As a New Englander and a sea captain in his late teens, William Goodwin Dana, founder of Nipomo, had the unique experience of participating in America’s burgeoning trade with East Asia in the early 19th century....
by marina | Mar 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Join us for the next installment in the Sunday Speaker Series! Alan Daurio will host a talk regarding this Sunday’s topic, “How Life in the East Indies Influenced William Dana’s Life as Don of Rancho Nipomo.” The talk will take place on Sunday, March...
by marina | Mar 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Help support DANA by purchasing from AmazonSmile and triple your impact! From March 12 to March 31, Amazon is tripling the donation rate on your first AmazonSmile purchase! Go to smile.amazon.com and Amazon will donate 1.5% of the price of your first purchase to Dana...
by marina | Mar 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
DANA is currently accepting sponsors for this year’s outdoor Nature Festival, hosted at the newly constructed DANA Adobe Cultural Center on Sunday, May 20. This event will promote science, stewardship, and nature, as well as outdoor recreation. It is an...
by marina | Feb 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
One historic figure that was at Rancho Nipomo was Jim P. Beckwourth, former slave turned mountain man and Crow Indian chief. The Dana family, or as Jim called “Captain Denny”, knew him as one of the first military mail couriers who rode the dangerous trails between...