As a part of our Uncover Santa Ana-Epicenter of Creative Urbanism tour we had the opportunity to visit the Bowers Museum.
The Bowers Museum enjoys a national reputation and its current exhibition featuring the life and presidency of John F. Kennedy is a perfect example. 
The photographs tell the story of the Kennedy family, his early years as well as his time as a PT Boat Commander whose ship was struck and sunk by a Japanese Destroyer and then after Word War II his entry into politics.
The day that President Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas brought to mind my own experience that fateful day.  I was actually in Santa Ana to purchase a Swedish styled metal fireplace for the new recreation room we had added to our home. 
While I was in the store making the purchase the neighbor in the adjacent building came running in to say that he had just heard on the radio that the President had been shot.  When my business was concluded I got back in my car for the long drive back to my office which was then located in Beverly Hills.  As I was driving through downtown Los Angeles I watched as all over the city flags were being lowered to half mast.  It was a dramatic moment that I have never forgotten.
Another Bowers exhibition that has received much attention is that of Earnest Shackleton's ill fated Antarctic expedition aboard the Endurance which ended up crushed by the ice that imprisoned the ship.  Aboard was Photographer Frank Hurley and his dramatic photographs tell the expedition story in graphic detail.  The quality of the photographs taken one hundred years ago is amazing especially when considering the hostile weather conditions when they were taken.  Here are the dramatic story of the shipwrecked men fighting for their lives on the ice pack of Antarctic.  The landing on Elephant Island and the Carnad, the small ship's boat that Shackleton and Frank Worsley used to make the crossing to South Georgia and rescue for his men.
Along with the social media and press exposure  expected from the Uncover Santa Ana program is a new website www.uncoversantaana.com.  This is a visitor friendly information center describing the trendiest, tastiest and inspired part of Orange County.