Museum celebrates pioneer spirit in South O.C.

Museum celebrates pioneer spirit in South O.C.

While many people in the area were eating Mexican food on May 5 to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, one local institution had its own tradition to uphold the following day. The Moulton Museum celebrates May 6 each year as “Arrival Day,” when a young Lewis Moulton first set foot in South Orange County from the East Coast in 1874. He went on to become a pivotal figure in the development of the region from grasslands to today’s lands. Lewis and Nellie Gail…