Susan Zamudio-Gurrola to speak on Ventura County farmworker housing on Oct. 10 in Santa Paula

SANTA PAULA — Susan Zamudio-Gurrola will speak about the twentieth century history of Ventura County farmworker housing at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10 at the at the Museum of Ventura County’s Agriculture Museum, 926 Railroad Ave., Santa Paula.

The speaker, who earned a bachelor’s degree in art and architectural history at UCSB and a master’s in historic preservation at USC, has studied Ventura County farmworker housing since graduate school and made it the subject of her master’s degree thesis. She contributed a chapter called “Preserving Minorities’ History: The Labor Camps of Mexican Braceros” for the book “Que Fronteras? Mexican Braceros and a Re-Examination of the Legacy of Migration,” published in 2010 by Dr. Paul Lopez.

Zamudio-Gurrola has worked for the California Oil Museum, the Museum of Ventura County Agriculture Museum and for historic preservation consultants.

General admission is $4 adults, $3 seniors, $1 children ages 6-17. Free for members and children ages 5 and younger. The first Sunday of every month is free general admission to the public. For more information, go to http://www.venturamuseum.org or call 805-525-3100.