Bringing local and national history together, the Talley Family and Las Ventanas at Talley Farms will sponsor a band concert during the Traditional 4th of July Celebration in the Village of Arroyo Grande. Performing a wide variety of traditional band music, marches, and patriotic songs, The Village Band – under the direction of Gary Thompson – will fill the air with many of the same sounds that the area’s founding families heard when they celebrated Independence Day a hundred years ago or more.
Just four years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted by our nation, the priests at Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa established a vegetable garden in Corralitos Canyon. The Arroyo Grande Valley has enjoyed a flourishing agricultural life since then, including three generations of Talleys, who opened Talley Farms in 1948. Forty years later, in 1986, they founded Talley Vineyards, where award-winning, world-class wines are produced.
To further illustrate its ties to the past, Las Ventanas at Talley Farms, a new community featuring 56 large custom home sites, is founded on the historic, 150-year-old Biddle Ranch. And the Rincon Adobe, built in 1860, now serves as the sales office for Las Ventanas. [--more-]
This many-layered connection between yesterday and today can be seen threefold -- in the pastoral setting for Las Ventanas, (which means “the windows” in Spanish), in the historic Village of Arroyo Grande, and in the old-fashioned celebration coming up.
