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Exhibition on display December 17 - January 21 -- Diverse life experiences and perspectives enrich our schools and community. In this spirit, The Legacy Project seeks to facilitate an understanding of these experiences and perspectives, while also encouraging community reflection on diversity and inclusion, individual and community heritage, legacy, and inspiration.
This project was created with the belief that diverse life experiences and perspectives enrich our schools and community. In this spirit, The Legacy Project seeks to facilitate an understanding of these experiences and perspectives, while also encouraging community reflection on diversity and inclusion, individual and community heritage, legacy, and inspiration. The stories featured in The Legacy Project reveal experiences of brave ancestors from various spots around the globe who paved the road for those who came after them. The intention of this project is to celebrate ancestry, encourage open dialogue, challenge preconceptions, and provide an experiential exploration of the culturally-varied population of our community. The aim is to ultimately help the community have a more meaningful understanding of each others’ backgrounds while also recognizing the common threads that knit all of us together.
The Legacy Project was created by the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee at Dapplegray Elementary in Rolling Hills Estates. DEI member Yvette D’Elia brought the project with her from its original incarnation at PS 10 Elementary in Brooklyn, New York. It was originally created by two parents, Rohi Mirza Pandya and Sonja Neil, as part of their Diversity Committee to highlight the stories of their thriving, multicultural, immigrant student body.
The Legacy Project has now extended to the entire PVPUSD with approximately five schools participating and it is growing.
AGE GROUP: | Young Reader | Teen | Senior | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Art Show | Art Reception |
Opening as the Palos Verdes Public Library & Art Gallery on June 3, 1930, the Mediterranean Revival architectural style building was designed by Architect Myron Hunt, a local resident. The five-level, 16,550-square-foot building is constructed of hollow-cast double-walled reinforced concrete covered by stucco with a red mission tile roof. The surrounding landscape was designed by well-known landscape architect, Frederick Olmsted, Jr in 1930.
In 1962, an addition was completed on the south side of the building, and in 1997 the stone patio on the east side of the building was remodeled to provide improved handicapped access. Library furnishings include reproductions of original hand-carved walnut Italian Renaissance tables, chairs, and couches from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vanderlip. The Library completed a DOLLAR renovation of the interior restoring it to its original.
The library has been designated as a Historic Landmark and it is listed on the California Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places.