🚗 Worth the Drive
Big nights just beyond the groves. These are not in Redlands, but they are close enough to matter.
🏛️ SPECIAL FEATURE: HISTORY & HERITAGE | LOMA LINDA
Citrus and Clay: The Oldest House in Loma Linda Throws a Party
Long before Redlands was a city, a man named Horace Monroe Frink was already planting oranges a few miles down the road. At 15 he drove a wagon west in Brigham Young's wagon train. He reached California in 1848, while it was still part of Mexico, and spent the next decades as a wagon train captain, a scout for John Fremont, a freighter, a rancher, and a surveyor for the Southern Pacific. “Horace Monroe Frink was the kind of character that seems impossible,” says Jim Shipp of Two Canyons Conservancy.
In 1868, Frink planted eight orange trees beside the Zanja, the same 1819 waterway that still winds through Redlands. Two years later he built an adobe home on Mission Road. It is still standing. It is the oldest house in Loma Linda and the last pioneer adobe on Mission Road, and this Saturday, Two Canyons Conservancy celebrates the start of its long-awaited restoration.
Citrus and Clay runs 1 to 4 PM, and the whole thing is free. A flag raising at 1 PM honors Joe Frink, the fifth generation of the family to call the adobe home, who passed in 2024 and always believed it could become a place for field trips and history tours. Then the fun starts: tours of the house and grounds, an adobe plastering workshop with Valentín Gallegos, who rebuilt the adobe’s east wall, and brickmaking for kids and grown-ups. The kids take home a brick of their own. There are pony rides (90-pound limit), leathercraft, a native plant walk, and music from The Citrus Sisters at 2 PM and The Prickly Pears, a Pioneertown duo who sing the cowboy songs of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, at 3:30. You may remember the Prickly Pears from their packed show at Smiley Live.
Come hungry. Bryan’s Catering has tacos and burritos, Bee’s Porch Bakery has citrus treats, and there is Grapefruitade squeezed from the park’s own trees using the recipe from the old Kool Kactus Café on Redlands Boulevard. If that name takes you back, you already know you are going.
One more thing. The adobe needs a new roof, and the conservancy has raised $8,955 toward a $50,000 goal. If you want to help a 156-year-old house see another century, give at twocanyonsconservancy.org.
Frink Adobe Historic Park, 26248 Mission Road, Loma Linda. Free, with food for sale. Park on the wide parts of Mission Road or on the trail side of Zanja Road in the new Lennar development.
Source: Two Canyons Conservancy press release, Nov. 2, 2026
Yaamava' Theater — Tom Jones
📍 777 San Manuel Blvd, Highland, CA | 🕐 Fri 11/6, 8 PM | 21+
Rescheduled from late October, and the voice is the whole show, so if you have been holding tickets, this is the night.
Yaamava' Theater — Jorge Medina
📍 777 San Manuel Blvd, Highland, CA | 🕐 Sat 11/7, 8 PM | 21+
The former lead voice of La Arrolladora Banda el Limón brings the grupero ballads and the heartbreak songs everybody knows the words to.
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